Sam Iii Fulwood

Among the first schoolchildren bused to integrate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in 1970 was a 14-year-old black boy with thick glasses and no idea what awaited him in a white classroom on the other side of town.

Among the first schoolchildren bused to integrate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in 1970 was a 14-year-old black boy with thick glasses and no idea what awaited him in a white classroom on the other side of town.