A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT IN DESEGREGATION An experiment to desegregate the public school system of Miami Dade County, Florida. According to the first graduating class, the experiment was highly successful and the Killian Class of 1968 Alumni/ the ‘Lab Rats’ are utilizing this opportunity to share the results and leave our legacy for the future. As for the students, thrown together in the tumultuous time of church bombings, lynchings, public beatings, mass arrests, Marshall Law and the Vietnam War, readers will note that our fight was not with each other but, against those who fought to keep us apart. This is a book of shared experiences, testimonies and enlightenment, as the first graduating class of Miami Killian Senior High collectively look back over our lives. Some 58 years later, through the 20/20 vision of hindsight, we have sought to ascertain the impact of being educated at the first school designed and built to provide the best education to the multi-racial population in the suburbs of south Miami-Dade. We (the Lab Rats), feel it was a wave of progress that required boldness and courage by all who planned, implemented and participated, policymakers, administrators, teachers, staff, parents and especially the students. We perceive that we have been given a precious gift, not only of education but of light, love, appreciation of all cultures, races and traditions. Our legacy is to pass down to future generations the ability to perceive the value inherent in the design of all people; to understand the depth, breath and value of individual uniqueness; to empathize with humanity’s common endeavors to grow and develop; to possess the courage to take the first steps in reaching out to others and to intentionally establish and cultivate lasting relationships that generate strength in all members of society is the Miami Killian Senior High Class of 1968 Legacy Project.