Carol Bruce: Remembering the Transition to a Desegregated School

ID: 162 ~ Source: Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: October 19, 2019

This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County

Harford Civil Rights Project

In this 2019 oral history clip, Carol Bruce recalls her experience dealing with rejection by white students at her new school in the mid-1960s. [Interviewer: student Jackie Wroe, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County

The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County

By James Karmel

In 1958, George S. Pettit had a problem. Pettit was a scientist who worked for the U.S. Army based at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. The Pettit family had recently moved to Aberdeen from Baltimore County and included 8th grader Alvin…