Wade was the first African-American to attend a white public school in Fayette County when she took a summer school class at Lafayette High School in 1955.
Jennifer Jones, a teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary school in Lexington, invited Helen Caise Wade to speak with her students about integrating an all-white school in Lexington in 1955.
May 17, 1954 -- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that school segregation is unconstitutional. A few days later,
Helen Cary Caise
, a black student, enrolls at Lafayette High School.