NAACP vs. Charles Wills
This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally
This 1963 Baltimore Sun headline summed up the NAACP's position on Harford County Public Schools'
Superintendant Charles Willis. For over a decade, Willis was the public face and legal conduit in defense of the slow-walked desegregation process. His statements in court provided evidence for passive admininstrative resistance to desegregation of students and teachers.
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…