Evangelist Norma Fickens remembering the warm and nurturing culture of Havre de Grace Colored School in the 1930s and 1940s.

ID: 200 ~ Source: Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: 1930s/1940s
This file appears in: The Havre de Grace Colored and Consolidated School
Harford Civil Rights Project

In this 2019 oral history excerpt, Evangelist Norma Fickens remembers that the teachers and staff at Havre de Grace Colored School created a warm and nurturing culture. [interviewer: Nina Oxendine, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: The Havre de Grace Colored and Consolidated School

By James Karmel
In the early 1950s, the Harford County Board of Education opened two K-12 schools to separately educate the county’s African American children. These two schools would take students from the numerous black-only elementary schools dotting the county…