Carol Swann, right, and Gloria Mead are accompanied on their walk to Chandler Junior High School on their first day on Sept. 6, 1960, by Ms. Swann’s father, Frank Swann, and Ms. Mead’s mother, Florence Mead. News reporters and city police detectives also were at the school on the first day.
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Carol Swann-Daniels, a trailblazer integrating Richmond schools in 1960, dies at 73
Sixty-one years have passed since Carol Irene Swann, 12, and her friend, Gloria Jean Mead, 13, blasted an opening in the racially segregated schools of Richmond.
