Pioneer educator Ulysses Byas dies at 88
Photo credit: Newsday/Jim Peppler | Ulysses Byas, interim superintendent of schools, Hempstead school district, at a Hempstead School Board meeting in Hempstead. Byas died Friday in Macon, Ga. An elementary school in the Roosevelt district, where Byas also worked, is named for him. (July 30, 1990)
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Ulysses Byas, as a pioneering black school superintendent on Long Island and in the Deep South, scored more than his share of racial and educational breakthroughs.
But Byas, who died earlier this month at 88 after a long illness, also knew firsthand the frustrations of trying to improve the physical and academic quality of school systems with large minority student populations.
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