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West Concord Mothers Present at Morganton Board of Aldermen Item Info
- Title:
- West Concord Mothers Present at Morganton Board of Aldermen
- Creator:
- Morganton Board of Aldermen; North Carolina Room at Burke County Public Library
- Date Created:
- 1961-09-11
- Description:
- West Concord Mothers present transportation concerns to the Morganton Board of Aldermen. In response, the Board arranged private meetings with the School Board and a local taxi company to provide discounted transportation to students. If their requests were not met, the Mothers were prepared to escort their children to the segregated white schools closer to their neighborhood, rather than Mountain View Elementary over a mile from their neighborhood across town. This petition led to the "first wave" of desegregation in June 1963, where Morganton City Schools reassigned 30 Black students to formerly all-white schools closest to their homes.
- Subjects:
- West Concord Mothers transportation newspaper primary source
- Location:
- Morganton, North Carolina
- Latitude:
- 35.7368
- Longitude:
- -81.6918
- Source:
- Morganton Board of Aldermen; North Carolina Room at Burke County Public Library
- Source Identifier:
- board-minutes
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "West Concord Mothers Present at Morganton Board of Aldermen", Children of the Struggle, History Museum of Burke County
- Reference Link:
- https://childrenogfthestruggle.org//items/board-minutes.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact Morganton Public Library North Carolina Room (828) 764-9266.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/