"Simply Isn't Fair"
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
The Harford County NAACP chapter submitted this powerful letter to the editor of the Record (Havre de Grace) in 1964. It noted the problems of another delay to the long-delayed full desegregation, emphasizing the prejudice against black teachers. The letter also pointed out the financial waste in allowing classrooms to sit empty in the two segregated consolidated schools while budgeting to create new classrooms in former whites-only schools.
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
The actions of parents and students to force desegregation of American schools are a famous story of the civil rights era. The Brown vs. Board of Education case (1954), for example or the desegregation of high schools in Little Rock, Arkansas were…