Aberdeen High School
This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
This image is of Aberdeen High School from the 1963 Arrivederci, the school yearbook. It shows the high school where A. Dwight Pettit transferred to from Havre de Grace Consolidated School in 1960 after winning a lawsuit against the Harford County Board of Education.
This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
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…