Shirley Rose: Maryland forces African American teachers out of state for graduate school
This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958
In this oral history clip, retired Harford County educator Shirley Rose recalls a Maryland Jim Crow era policy in which teachers were paid to go out of state for graduate school. The state supported this policy rather than allowing them to integrate in state education programs at state universities. [Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College & Harford Voices]
This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958
Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958
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…