If calls and e-mails to our newsroom are any indication, Emma Jean Guyn Miller touched a lot of lives before her life ended peacefully at her home in Nicholasville on Friday. She was 107 years old.For more than 40 years, Mrs. Miller was a schoolteacher, starting in a one-room schoolhouse during segregation and ending when integration made her years of knowledge and experience dispensable.
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Susan,
ReplyDeleteDid you mean to say indispensable?
The "dispensable" is from Merlene Davis's original. When the schools were integrated, I know that African-American teachers were sometimes told that their credentials were not good enough, even if they had long track records of successful teaching. I read that part of the article to mean that Mrs. Miller was one of the educators who were locked out of teaching that way.
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