Janice Grant: Remembering Restaurant Desegregation
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In this oral history clip, Janice Grant remembers restaurant desegregation in Aberdeen and Havre de Grace in the early 1960s, including the role of Aberdeen Proving Ground leaders of the time. [Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College]
This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
Route 40 Freedom Ride
Usually when Americans remember the Freedom Rides, they think of buses that traversed the deep South in the early 1960s to protest racism at bus depots and lunch counters and the like. The Freedom Riders' demonstrated that, in many southern states,…