‘This is still a civil rights era’: Gainesville residents to share stories of desegregation on film - Gainesville Times

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‘This is still a civil rights era’: Gainesville residents to share stories of desegregation on film

Documentary filmmaker Marcquel Woodard sets up lights Thursday, July 7, 2022, at First Baptist Church on M.L.K. Jr. Boulevard as he begins filming the history of E.E. Butler High School and Fair Street School. Dora Nell Cantrell, right, and Sylvia Earls wait to be interviewed for the film. - photo by Scott Rogers

07082022 DOCUMENTARY 1.jpg — Documentary filmmaker Marcquel Woodard sets up lights Thursday, July 7, 2022, at First Baptist Church on M.L.K. Jr. Boulevard as he begins filming the history of E.E. Butler High School and Fair Street School. Dora Nell Cantrell, right, and Sylvia Earls wait to be interviewed for the film. - photo by Scott Rogers

Integrating Black students into White classrooms caused beloved schools to close or reshape, and Newtown Florist Club hopes to capture the complex history of integration in Gainesville on film.