Tracey Meares gets Springfield High valedictorian title 38 years later
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 17, 2022
A State Journal-Register article previewing Tracey Meares' keynote speech at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast in Springfield in 2019 referred to her as "the 1984 Springfield High School valedictorian."
"When I was talking to Allan Woodson (from Frontiers International, who invited Meares), he said, 'I thought she was the valedictorian,'" recalled Carolyn Blackwell, Meares' mother . . .
