Emil Cromwell: Resilience in Segregated, Unequal Schools

ID: 116 ~ Source: Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: October 2019

This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958

Harford Civil Rights Project

In this oral history clip, Emil Cromwell discussed the resilience of the Havre de Grace Colored School basketball team, making due without the facilities of white schools. [interviewer: student Sarah Dudick, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958

Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958

By James Karmel

In 1955, Stephen Moore III was an African American 4th grader attending the segregated, Black-only Central Consolidated School in Hickory, outside Bel Air, Maryland. He lived in the town of Bel Air just a few blocks from his neighborhood school, the…