'We were here': Sandy Springs elder reflects on Black life rarely highlighted by the city

'We were here': Sandy Springs elder reflects on Black life rarely highlighted by the city

At 83, Shirley Peters Pruitt believes she is the oldest living Black resident in the city of Sandy Springs, where the stories of early Black families have rarely been told as they have been in the neighboring cities of Roswell and Alpharetta. Yet Pruitt and former schoolmates who attended the Bailey-Johnson School during segregation are a thread that connects the three cities. Pruitt and her younger brother, Melvin Peters, who also lives in Sand…