Evangelist Norma Fickens: Segregation Era Challenges
This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958
In this oral history clip, Evangelist Norma Fickens remembers her childhood in the 1930s-1950s in Havre de Grace, Maryland in the culture of racial apartheid. She recalls playing with white kids, but also their' parents race-conscious interference. She also remembers inequality between white schools and her school, the Harford Colored School. [interviewed by student Nina Oxendine, Harford Community College]
This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958
Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958
In 1955, Stephen Moore III was an African American 4th grader attending the segregated, Black-only Central Consolidated School in Hickory, outside Bel Air, Maryland. He lived in the town of Bel Air just a few blocks from his neighborhood school, theā¦