Submitted / TPI Janice Grayson Brooks, bottom left, was the first Black graduate of an integrated Wetumpka High School. She was one of 83 graduates in 1966.
Submitted / TPI Janice Grayson Brooks, bottom left, was the first Black graduate of an integrated Wetumpka High School. She was one of 83 graduates in 1966.
Janice Faye Grayson Brooks was one of 83 graduates from Wetumpka High School in 1966. Many graduates came before her and after her, but Brooks was the first Black student to graduate from an integrated Wetumpka High School.
Brooks was one of 12 Black students to leave W.B. Doby School in the fall of 1965 to begin integrating the Wetumpka schools. Brooks died in December 2024 at the age of 74 but her legacy carries on.
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT ELMORE...NORTHWESTERN LEE...
CENTRAL MACON...SOUTHERN TALLAPOOSA AND SOUTHEASTERN COOSA COUNTIES
THROUGH 730 PM CDT...
At 644 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from near Deatsville to near
Eclectic to near Liverpool. Movement was northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Auburn, Tuskegee, Wetumpka, Tallassee, Dadeville, Camp Hill,
Notasulga, Equality, Milstead, Elmore, Eclectic, Shorter, Franklin,
Waverly, Martin Dam, Santuck, Lake Tuskegee, Tuskegee National
Forest, Ten Cedar Estates, and Dexter.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN;
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
