Plaintiffs in school desegregation suits ten years later: 1964
Leading plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court decisions outlawing school segregation are shown during a press conference at the Hotel Americana in Arlington, Virginia in June 1964.
From left to right, first row: Linda Brown Smith (Topeka, Kansas); Ethel Louise Belton Brown (Claymont, Delaware), Second row: Harry Briggs, Jr. (Summerton, S.C.), and Spottswood Bolling, Jr. (Washington, D.C.) during press conference at Hotel Americana. Missing is Dorothy Davis of Prince Edward County, Virginia.
The Bolling suit ending segregation in the District of Columbia 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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Photo by Al Ravenna. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-112705 (b&w film copy neg.)
Plaintiffs in school desegregation suits ten years later: 1964
Leading plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court decisions outlawing school segregation are shown during a press conference at the Hotel Americana in Arlington, Virginia in June 1964.
From left to right, first row: Linda Brown Smith (Topeka, Kansas); Ethel Louise Belton Brown (Claymont, Delaware), Second row: Harry Briggs, Jr. (Summerton, S.C.), and Spottswood Bolling, Jr. (Washington, D.C.) during press conference at Hotel Americana. Missing is Dorothy Davis of Prince Edward County, Virginia.
The Bolling suit ending segregation in the District of Columbia 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...
Photo by Al Ravenna. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-112705 (b&w film copy neg.)