Dennis Spriggs going to school

ID: 23 ~ Source: Baltimore Afro-American via ProQuest LLC ~ Creator: James Karmel ~ Date: 1956

This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958

This is an image of Dennis Spriggs from the Baltimore Afro-American in a 1956 article. Spriggs joined Stephen Moore lawsuits. Spriggs sued successfully to attend Edgewood Junior High School, his neighborhood school, rather than continue to travel to Central Consolidated School, 14 miles away

This file appears in: Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958

Desegregating Harford County Public Schools: the Moore Cases 1955-1958

By James Karmel

In 1955, Stephen Moore III was an African American 4th grader attending the segregated, Black-only Central Consolidated School in Hickory, outside Bel Air, Maryland. He lived in the town of Bel Air just a few blocks from his neighborhood school, the…