Adria R. Walker – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 10/3/21 on page A3
When Alice Holloway Young was 4 years old, her family moved across state lines from Virginia to North Carolina. Her home state did not have a school for Black children, and North Carolina did.
To ensure their children received an education, Young’s parents packed up everything they owned, sold their farm and moved the family.
And 94 years later, on her 98th birthday, Alice Young recounted this story as she stood outside of the school that now bears her name.
On Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Young and other city leaders, RCSD’s School No. 3 was officially renamed the Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence.