Mable Lyles Educator / Writer

Mable Lyles

Educator / Writer

Mable Lyles began her education in a one-room school.  Mable graduated from Virginia Union University in Richmond.  She began teaching in the Alexandria schools in September 1954, and retired from the school system in 1988. In 2006, she published a book, Caught Between Two Systems: Desegregating Alexandria’s Schools 1954-1973.