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Episodes tagged "Desegregation": 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Lincoln Elementary and High School, McClennanville, SC: A Standing Artifact of Desegregation in South Carolina
    date 1955 to 1960map Greenville, South Carolinatags equalization schools, Supreme Court, construction, Lincoln, Greenville, SC, South Carolina, Educational System, Brown vs. Board of Educat, Education, Desegregation

    A photograph of Lincoln Elemetary and High School, as it still stands in McClennanville, South Carolina, an unoccupied building with boarded windows, is the starting point for this episode in American history. The photograph was taken by Rebekah Dobrasko, in 2008, as part of a master's thesis on equalization schools in South Carolina. Across the state of South Carolina from 1951-1960, a wave of new...

  2. Desegregating Schools
    date May 16, 1960map Orleans, Louisianatags New Orleans, Desegregation

    The article "U.S. Court Orders New Orleans To Start Pupil Integration in Fall: Outlines Grade-a-Year Plan After Board's Refusal to Present Own Proposal INTEGRATION SET IN NEW ORLEANS was written by Claude Sittons and published on the New York Times on May 17, 1960. The article states thaton May 16, 1960 Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright set September as the deadline for New Orleans to start desegregating...

  3. Teenage School bus Drivers, Black and White, Crash on South Carolina Highway
    date January 20, 1953map Clarendon, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Desegregation, Transportation, Segregation, Supreme Court, Children, Public Schools, Black History, Black Schools, South Carolina, Buses

    “W.H. Ridgeway, the 16-year-old driver of the white bus, sobbed in his hospital bed and told his mother over and over how sorry he was the wreck had happened” The Columbia State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper, reported this pitiful scene on January 21st, 1953, under the front-page headline, “Clarendon School Bus Crash Kills 2”. The State ran no pictures of the crash, but the details...

  4. Prince Edward Free Schools Association
    date August, 1963 to August, 1964map Prince Edward, Virginiatags Desegregation, Civil Rights, Education

    "We will oppose…with every facility at our command, and with every ounce of our energy, the attempt being made to mix the white and Negro races in our classrooms. Let there be no misunderstanding, no weasel words, on this point: we dedicate our every capacity to preserve segregation in the schools." - Virginia Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr. Dr. Neil V. Sullivan arrived in Prince Edward...