East Side alum and NBA veteran Johnny O’Bryant, executive producer of the documentary “Never Say Die: The Story of East Side High,” stands in front of the former Cleveland school in Bolivar County. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)
CLEVELAND — When a federal judge ordered Cleveland, Mississippi, to desegregate its schools over 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, local residents were forced to grapple with a new reality while moving forward.
