Integrated students at Barnard School: 1955
A year after the Bolling v. Sharpe decision that ended District of Columbia school segregation, an integrated group of students is shown at the Barnard School May 27, 1955.
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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Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Photo by Thomas J. O’Lalloran. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Integrated students at Barnard School: 1955
A year after the Bolling v. Sharpe decision that ended District of Columbia school segregation, an integrated group of students is shown at the Barnard School May 27, 1955.
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...
Photo by Thomas J. O’Lalloran. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.