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A First Step toward school integration, 1958 June

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Pamphlet written by Anna Holden in cooperation with the Nashville Congress of Racial Equality group, 1958. The pamphlet tells how a CORE group helped parents and children, despite the violence of segregationist mobs, to desegregate public schools in Nashville, Tennessee in the fall of 1957. This pamphlet also addresses southern communities that did not accept the 1954 Brown v. Board decision along with a chronology of all major events in the Nashville school desegregation struggle through April 1958. Forms part of the Civil Rights Ephemera Collection. 1 pamphlet : col. ; 6 x 8.5 in.
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Text Pamphlets
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