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Lucy Addison High School. Basketball game.

Lucy Addison High School. Students in Home Economics Class.

Lucy Addison High School. Basketball game.

Lucy Addison High School. “Track meet, Lynchburg, VA.”

Lucy Addison High School. Students in Shop Class.

Lucy Addison High School. Students gathered around a food cart.

Lucy Addison High School. Students in Home Economics Class.

Lucy Addison High School. Group portrait of female students in formal attire.

Lucy Addison High School. Dancers. “Olivia Skipper and Carolyn Carpenter.”

Lucy Addison High School. Students dancing. “Carolyn Law and Louis Claytor.”

Lucy Addison High School. Dancer. “Joann Smith.”

Lucy Addison High School. Music teachers playing piano. “Finny and Powell.”

Lucy Addison High School. Group portrait of male students in formal attire.

Lucy Addison High School. Group portrait of students in formal attire.

Lucy Addison High School. Group portrait of female students outside.

Lucy Addison High School. Group of female students in gym clothes.

Lucy Addison High School. Students at a school pep rally in the school’s gymnasium.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes. Students at a school function in the school’s gymnasium.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes. School Band and Botetourt County School Bus.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes. on parade near St. Andrews Catholic Church.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes. on parade near St. Andrews Catholic Church.

Lucy Addison High School. School Band and Majorettes on parade through Downtown Roanoke.

Lucy Addison High School. School Band and Majorettes on parade through Gainsboro Neighborhood.

Lucy Addison High School. School Band and Majorettes on parade through Gainsboro Neighborhood.

Lucy Addison High School. School Band and Majorettes on parade through Gainsboro Neighborhood.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at Victory Stadium.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at Victory Stadium.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at school.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at school.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at school.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at school.

Lucy Addison High School. Majorettes at school.

Lucy Addison High School, Graduation Photograph "Mary Brandon"

Lucy Addison High School, Group of young women posing outside of the school with a car.

Lucy Addison High School, Group of students

Lucy Addison High School, Student leaving school

Lucy Addison High School, group of students

Lucy Addison High School, Young women dancing

Lucy Addison High School, Group of young women

Lucy Addison High School, two young women posing

Lucy Addison High School, three young women posing

Lucy Addison High School, three young women posing

Lucy Addison High School, two young women posing

Lucy Addison High School, three young women posing

Lucy Addison High School, “Connie Isabel.”

Lucy Addison High School, “Lou Robin Roseboro.”

Lucy Addison High School, portrait of a young woman

Lucy Addison High School, portrait of a young woman

Lucy Addison High School, “Ruth Robinson” posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing, "August 1956, Mary.”

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, young woman posing

Lucy Addison High School, performer

Lucy Addison High School, dancers

Lucy Addison High School, dancers

Lucy Addison High School, dancers

Lucy Addison High School, performance.

Lucy Addison High School, performance.

Lucy Addison High School, performance.

Lucy Addison High School, performance

Lucy Addison High School, performance

Lucy Addison High School, stage performance

Lucy Addison High School, stage performance

Lucy Addison High School, stage performance

Lucy Addison High School, stage performance

Lucy Addison High School, stage performance

Lucy Addison High School, stage performance

Lucy Addison High School. Three young women.

Young couple in formal attire. “Byron Morris and Carolyn C. Patterson.”

Lucy Addison High School. Couple in formal attire.

Harrison School Faculty 1948/1950.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to…

Mr. Thomas Payne's first class.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School.

Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually…

Lucy Addison was born enslaved in Fauquier County, Virginia on December 8, 1861. After graduating from the Quaker-run Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia in 1882 with a degree in teaching, Addison began her life-long career as an educator. …
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