A little more than a week after celebrating with his family and community the opening of Columbia's Battle High , long-time Columbia educator Eliot Battle, has died. Columbia Public Schools spokesperson Michelle Baumstark says Battle died last night, Tuesday, June 11th, from injuries sustained after a car crash Friday. Battle had been hospitalized following the accident. Battle High School is named after Muriel Battle, the wife of Eliot Battle. At the June 2 ribbon-cutting ceremony, Battle looked well and happy, sharing the honor with family members and school district and city leaders. “If we have had this kind of facility back when we were growing up and my children were growing up, we’d have accomplished even more I’m sure,” Battle said at the ceremony. For his role in school desegregation, Battle was honored numerous times and held up as an inspiring pioneer by the mid-Missouri community. Wanda Brown, a former assistant superintendent of secondary education for the Columbia school
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