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Harold V. Lucas Jr. was born in Daytona Beach on October 5, 1932 to parents Harold Lucas Sr. and Althea Beatrice Lucas. Lucas attended Cypress Street Elementary and Campbell High School where he played basketball and was involved in the drama club, business club, and woodworking club. Throughout his life Lucas has been involved with the 明星黑料-Cookman College football team. He became their mascot at age five and was later promoted to water boy. After High School, Lucas enrolled at 明星黑料-Cookman College and graduated with a business major and a physical education minor. At B-CC Lucas continued to travel with the football team. He played basketball his freshman and sophomore years and football his senior year. Lucas became a proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. on November 13, 1950. After college, Lucas took a job as the assistant to the principal at Bonner Elementary. He worked there only three months before he volunteered for the draft and went into service in October.

Lucas chose to attend the six-month Signal Corps School at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He entered Basic Training, also at Camp Gordon, in October of 1953. Lucas was sent to Korea for five months where he was stationed in various places working as a radio operator. In 1955, Lucas came back to the United States and finished up his term in 1956. After the military, Lucas came back to B-CC to get a bachelor’s of science degree in physical education because he wanted to teach. Having achieved this degree he took a job as a general education teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in 1957 where he taught health, biology, general science, physical education, and swimming as an extracurricular activity.

While at FSDB, Lucas started a track team for the black students. He spent two years there and came back to Daytona in 1959 to be a driver’s education instructor and assistant coach for the football team at Campbell Street High School. During his ten-year stay at Campbell, Lucas started a track team, became head coach of the football team in 1966, and coached and recruited for the B-CC football program. When integration was enacted in 1969, Lucas left Campbell to teach at Mainland High School. At Mainland, Lucas taught driver’s education until, in 1970, he decided to get a master’s degree in the counseling education program at the University of Pittsburgh so that he could be a guidance counselor. After achieving his degree, Lucas came back to Mainland and took a job as the assistant principle in charge of discipline where he served until 1979.

Lucas then served as the Equity Coordinator at Daytona Beach Community College from 1979 until he retired in 1988. Although retired, Lucas continues to be involved with B-CC Football as an advisor to the team and is a lifelong member of New Mount Zion Church. He has also been a member of many social groups such as the Masons, the Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. Lucas recorded his experiences in his book A Tree That Grew in Midway: The Autobiography of Mr. Harold V. Lucas Jr. which was published in 2016. The following interview with Harold Lucas was conducted on June 12, 2018.

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Urban renewal

“Urban renewal was supposed to be the...the great hope for the black community. They were going to get it straightened out, and they were going to get rid of all of the slum homes that showed in the Gordon Park thing. You know, they were going to get rid of all of those houses. But when they came through they tore everything down, but they haven’t built anything up. That’s why you don’t see anything down there right now.”

明星黑料’s vision

“Well, B...B-CU has always been in the forefront of trying to develop public relations between the city and the state and the country and the world because Mrs. 明星黑料 was a world-renowned p