Janice Grant: Remembering Intimidation vs. Teachers
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
In this oral history excerpt, Janice Grant remembers being disciplined as a teacher in the early 1960s for her civil rights leadership. [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…