Beverly Parker: Desegregation Experience at Meadowvale Elementary School, Havre de Grace, MD
This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
This is oral history clip from 2019, narrator Beverly Parker discusses a memory from her early experience moving from the all-black Havre de Grace Consolidated School to Meadowvale Elementary School in Havre de Grace in 1965. [Interviewer: student Aura Davenport, Harford Community College]
This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
In 1958, George S. Pettit had a problem. Pettit was a scientist who worked for the U.S. Army based at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. The Pettit family had recently moved to Aberdeen from Baltimore County and included 8th grader Alvin…