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ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photoL Ouverture school was most recently used as McAlester Public School s Key Academy. It is now called the L Ouverture Historical Center.
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ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photoL Ouverture school was most recently used as McAlester Public School s Key Academy. It is now called the L Ouverture Historical Center.
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Herbert Keith, left, and Primus Moore hope to restore the former LâOuverture School building. They both attended LâOuverture and graduated with the class of 1965, prior to LâOuvertureâs integration with McAlester Public Schools.
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The L Ouverture School Auditorium in McAlester.
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The auditorium can be seen through a broken window at the L Ouverture School building in McAlester
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Primus Moore, a retired McAlester educator shown in this file photo, hopes to restore L Ouverture School.
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L Ouverture School in McAlester, which was last used as McAlester High School s Key Academy.
“So, we had a very devastating phone call from the doctor to say that he would be taken off all medication and dad would come to the end of his life naturally.
“But they would only allow one family member to be by the bedside for one hour in full PPE gear. I thought, we can’t have that. He can t die on his own. And somehow, we managed to get him home.
“It has been so emotional. But even from his death bed he made us laugh.
“He was desperately ill and very weak but we spent every moment with him and it was just wonderful.