GPB to air documentary on African American high school sports during segregation

Co-producer Bivins said his passion for the project is personal. He was a three-sport athlete and starting quarterback at A.L. Staley High, which now might be called a ghost school. The all-Black school became a junior high in 1970, when Americus High integrated, merging student bodies. The original Staley school building burned down suspiciously, according to Bivins, in 1972. Its sports history seemed to die with it.

Bivins was Staley’s quarterback. His counterpart at the crosstown White school, Americus High . . .