Joyce Cevis: the First African American Graduate of Havre de Grace High School ID: 163 ~ Source: The Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: October 26, 2019 This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally To listen to this audio please consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Harford Civil Rights Project In this 2019 oral history excerpt, Joyce Cevis remembers her transfer to change to Havre de Grace High School for 10th grade from the Havre de Grace Consolidated School. Her step-mother played a big role and she became the first African American graduate of her new high school. She briefly discussed her experience and a local newspaper (The Aegis) interview when she graduated.[Interviewer: Michael Dixon, Harford Community College] This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation FinallyBy James KarmelThe 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…
Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation FinallyBy James KarmelThe 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…