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^{At the time Douglass was Columbia’s High school and Elementary school for black kids.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2024-02-20 |title=Looking back at the legacy of Eliot and Muriel Battle |url=https://www.komu.com/news/black-history-month/looking-back-at-the-legacy-of-eliot-and-muriel-battle/article_399a5730-d048-11ee-8c8c-df3d08b7a0e1.html |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=KOMU 8 |language=en}}</ref>}

^{At the time Douglass was Columbia’s High school and Elementary school for black kids.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2024-02-20 |title=Looking back at the legacy of Eliot and Muriel Battle |url=https://www.komu.com/news/black-history-month/looking-back-at-the-legacy-of-eliot-and-muriel-battle/article_399a5730-d048-11ee-8c8c-df3d08b7a0e1.html |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=KOMU 8 |language=en}}</ref>}

Around the same time under the policy that no black teachers would be fired due to integration, Battle's husband was transferred to full-time guidance counselor at Hickman High School. During this time she became teacher of Social Studies and World Geography at [[West Junior High School|West Junior High]].{{Sfn|Crighton|1987|p=444}} Where she became the first black teacher there.<ref name=":2" />

Around the same time under the policy that no black teachers would be fired due to integration, Battle's husband was transferred to full-time guidance counselor at Hickman High School. During this time she became teacher of Social Studies and World Geography at [[West Junior High School|West Junior High]]{{Sfn|Crighton|1987|p=444}} in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web |last=staff |first=Missourian |date=2014-05-09 |title=COMO YOU KNOW: West Junior High School |url=https://www.columbiamissourian.com/como_you_know/como-you-know-west-junior-high-school/article_f6ce6e06-a3d6-5a26-94d3-531208cfb3c9.html |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Columbia Missourian |language=en}}</ref> Where she became the first black teacher there.<ref name=":2" />

== Becomes assistant principal ==

== Becomes assistant principal ==