On her official transcript -- a large yellowed file card in the school office -- there is a line of erasures with no grades inserted on top of them. On the music line, the final three grades are B's, which follow a series of A's and one B.
"It didn't make sense," said her nephew, Nelson Harrison of Shadyside, a musician and a 1959 Westinghouse graduate who saw students treated differently because of race during his time there. "... We were not naive about racism. It wasn't hidden from us. It was in your face."
Mr. Harrison said the teacher who changed his aunt's grade became his teacher at Westinghouse and played in musical groups as an adult with him.
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