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Marian Wagstaff dies at 97; teacher integrated Compton school's faculty in 1940s

Marian Wagstaff, a far-sighted educator who turned a Compton school into a model of racial harmony and integrated its faculty years before the court rulings and civil rights protests of the 1950s and '60s, died April 26 at a nursing home in Santa Cruz. She was 97.

By Elaine Woo

May 24, 2009

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