Hutcheson High School - Faculty

Ulysses Byas was the principal of Hutcheson High School in 1956. He went on to a very distinguished career after leaving Douglasville. 

Some bio information I found regarding Byas online: "Dr. Ulysses Byas dropped out of high school two times before finally finishing and serving as a journeyman and a cook in the U.S. Navy. He graduated with a degree from Fort Valley State College (now University) in Georgia and went on to get a master's degree and a doctorate before taking over as head of schools for Macon County Public Schools in Alabama, making him the first Black superintendent of a mixed school district in the South."

As a leader, Dr. Byas was vocal about the disparities in funding for predominately Black schools. (Though Brown vs. Board of Education had been the law of the land for 16 years by the time he took over at Macon County Public Schools, Alabama and his native Georgia were slow to desegregate). He was well-known for his ability to turn around a budget crisis in districts, as well as his ability to bridge the gap between different sectors in education."