Shirley Rose: African American Teachers Deal With Official Racism
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
In this 2016 oral history clip, Shirley Rose recalls an incident in which a high level official suggested that black teachers needed special training for teaching white kids, but not vice versa. [Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College]
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
The actions of parents and students to force desegregation of American schools are a famous story of the civil rights era. The Brown vs. Board of Education case (1954), for example or the desegregation of high schools in Little Rock, Arkansas were…