DC white students say no to integration: 1954
Children display crudely lettered signs calling for segregated schools as they pose across the street from the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Oct. 7, 1954.
One sign reads: "We Whites want our rights."
The children were demonstrating against attending District of Columbia schools along with black children.
Students at several schools staged strikes and demonstrations against integration. The most serious incidents occurred at Anacostia High School where a gang of white students chased newly admitted black students, staged a school boycott and marched through the city attempting to gain support from other schools.
The District’s integration took place following the Supreme Court’s Bolling v. Sharpe decision in May 1954 that was brought about by the Consolidated Parents Group. Consolidated represented parents and students living along the Benning Road corridor and led a seven year fight that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road.
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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 Henry Burroughs. The image is an Associated Press photograph.
DC white students say no to integration: 1954
Children display crudely lettered signs calling for segregated schools as they pose across the street from the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Oct. 7, 1954.
One sign reads: "We Whites want our rights."
The children were demonstrating against attending District of Columbia schools along with black children.
Students at several schools staged strikes and demonstrations against integration. The most serious incidents occurred at Anacostia High School where a gang of white students chased newly admitted black students, staged a school boycott and marched through the city attempting to gain support from other schools.
The District’s integration took place following the Supreme Court’s Bolling v. Sharpe decision in May 1954 that was brought about by the Consolidated Parents Group. Consolidated represented parents and students living along the Benning Road corridor and led a seven year fight that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road.
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 Henry Burroughs. The image is an Associated Press photograph.