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'''Desegregation''' of facilities occurred gradually over many years.
*Following a seven-month boycott led by the [[Pensacola Council of Ministers]], lunch counters at all Pensacola businesses were integrated in early [[1962]].<ref>''Jet'', March 15, 1962.</ref>
*[[August 27]], [[1962]] – Twenty-one black students begin classes at nine previously all-white schools in the [[Escambia County School District]]. A bomb threat was called in to [[Pensacola High School]], which received the highest number of black students, but was quickly determined to be a hoax.
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