Article details separate IQ tests and process for entering white schools
This file appears in: The A. Dwight Pettit Story & Student Desegregation in Harford County
This 1959 Baltimore Afro-American article details the IQ tests given exclusively to black students seeking transfers to a white school, the process that Pettit was subect to, and Havre de Grace Principal Leon Roye's contribution as well.
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…