Howard County School Board Apologizes for Segregated Schools - baltimoresun.com: On the day that the Howard County school board apologized for the system's treatment of African-American students during segregation, Dottie Cook thought back to her middle school days, when she received a hand-me-down education that included tattered books with her uncle's name written in them.
An African-American resident from Dayton, Cook said her family petitioned the Howard school board to allow her to go to a school that white students attended — a more modern school with new books — and they were told she could but only if she got permission from the bus driver to be taken there.
"My father and I went to the gentleman's house," said Cook, 61, "and he told my father that if I didn't cause any trouble that he would pick me up and take me to the school."
