Mike HollisStudentsOvercoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universitiesHUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.July 6, 2007Page 1 of 1