Joyce Cevis: the First African American Graduate of Havre de Grace High School
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
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 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…