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Fairmont Heights students 1960
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School girls (front row from left to right) Pamela Sharps, and Pearl Lee Campbell, (rear left to right ) Mary Ann Campbell and Pamela Randall wave their Fairmount Heights Hornets pennant as they prepare to leave Lakeland to support their team during the school’s 1960 homecoming game. Lakeland High School was replaced by Fairmont Heights High School in 1950. The new school served the African American students from widely scattered areas of western Prince George's County. As a result of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the school board abandoned its earlier race based school assignment plan and instituted a system based on geographic boundaries. At the time housing in Prince Georges County segregated with African Americans restricted by custom and housing discrimination to single race communities. The result of this new plan was a school system with largely single race schools. There was a policy however which allowed students to seek assignment to other schools. Few sought that option. In the 1960s Lakeland students were assigned to the closer, predominantly white, Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, and High Point High School in Beltsville. (Courtesy of Pearl Lee Campbell and James Edwards, III.)
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