Shirley Rose: Desegregating Aberdeen Junior High School from a Teacher's Perspective
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
In this 2016 oral history clip, Shirley Rose describes her experience teaching physical education at desegregated Aberdeen Junior High School after years teaching at segregated Central Consolidated School. [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…