Students call for segregation at McKinley High: 1954
Students gather in the courtyard of Washington's McKinley High School October 5 to listen to a talk by their principal, Charles E. Bish (back to camera, wearing dark suit).
He has turned to read a sign carried by one of the students. Though police took steps to curb a growing wave of demonstrations against racial integration in public schools, large groups of students continued to remain away from school and to demonstrate for the return of segregation. [Original caption]
The photograph was taken October 5, 1954 following the District’s decision to proceed with integration following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Bolling v. Sharpe case in May 1954.
The suit was brought by the Consolidated Parents Group, composed of working class African Americans living east of the Anacostia River.
The Group waged a seven-year fight beginning in 1947 to improve conditions for African Americans that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road and ended with the Court’s school desegregation order.
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The photographer is unknown. Credit: :© Bettmann/CORBIS
Students call for segregation at McKinley High: 1954
Students gather in the courtyard of Washington's McKinley High School October 5 to listen to a talk by their principal, Charles E. Bish (back to camera, wearing dark suit).
He has turned to read a sign carried by one of the students. Though police took steps to curb a growing wave of demonstrations against racial integration in public schools, large groups of students continued to remain away from school and to demonstrate for the return of segregation. [Original caption]
The photograph was taken October 5, 1954 following the District’s decision to proceed with integration following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Bolling v. Sharpe case in May 1954.
The suit was brought by the Consolidated Parents Group, composed of working class African Americans living east of the Anacostia River.
The Group waged a seven-year fight beginning in 1947 to improve conditions for African Americans that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road and ended with the Court’s school desegregation order.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/564wW3
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
The photographer is unknown. Credit: :© Bettmann/CORBIS