Shirley Rose: A Travel Story

ID: 143 ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: 1961
This file appears in: The Central Consolidated School
Harford Civil Rights Project

In this 2016 oral history clip, narrator Shirley Rose remembers a trip to Denton, Maryland with a Central Consolidated basketball team that involved a racial profiling incident in the Civil Rights era. [Interviewer: James Karmel]

This file appears in: The Central Consolidated School

By James Karmel
In 1951, the K-12 Central Consolidated School opened in an area called Hickory outside Bel Air, Maryland to serve black students from the central and northern regions of Harford County, Maryland. All the students and teachers in the school were…