Hartford man to receive honorary diploma 57 years later

Hartford man to receive honorary diploma 57 years later

A Hartford man will get an honorary diploma from Hartford High School, 57 years after he was set to graduate. Gerlad Fothergill Jr. says he was a month-and-a -half from graduating when he said he was expelled for walking out of school the day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Hartford’s Board of Education voted unanimously to...