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Article titled "City School Board Assigns Negros" by Dorothy Cable Item Info
- Title:
- Article titled "City School Board Assigns Negros" by Dorothy Cable
- Creator:
- Dorothy Cable; North Carolina Room at Burke County Public Library
- Date Created:
- 1963-06-11
- Description:
- Morganton City School Board grants requests for 30 Black children to transfer to historically white schools closer to their homes. Students experience rejection, isolation, discrimination, and trauma. This pilot desegregation program is a result of organizing by Black families, the local branch of the NAACP, Slades Chapel, Gaston Chapel, and New Bethel Baptist Church.
- Subjects:
- desegregation News Herald Olive Hill High School Morganton High School West Concord Mountain View Elementary Morganton Junior High Forest Hill Elementary Central School newspaper primary source
- Location:
- Morganton, North Carolina
- Latitude:
- 35.7368
- Longitude:
- -81.6918
- Source:
- Dorothy Cable; North Carolina Room at Burke County Public Library
- Source Identifier:
- cable-article
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Article titled "City School Board Assigns Negros" by Dorothy Cable", Children of the Struggle, History Museum of Burke County
- Reference Link:
- https://childrenogfthestruggle.org//items/cable-article.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/