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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Solomon s bus provided opportunities for Black students Renty Solomon (1903-1978) purchased a bus from Fort Valley’s Blue Bird Body company in the 1940s. - photo by File photo
EDITOR’S NOTE This is the third installment of a four-story February series dedicated to people and/or places key to Black history in Effingham County.
RINCON Renty Solomon’s school bus was always loaded. Every nook and cranny not taken up by students was filled by his kindness and concern for others.