minstrel show at Aberdeen High School
This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
This is an advertisement that appeared in a local newspaper for a minstrel show. The show took place at Aberdeen High School in April 1960, just a few weeks before the final decision in the Pettit case. The ad depicts the racist culture that persisted in Harford County (and Aberdeen) simultaneous to the Pettit case, as the civil rights movement wrought change.
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…