Washburn, Doug H

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Janice East Moorehead Grant still lives on the property where she was born, the same property purchased by her great-grandmother about the time APG came to the county. A graduate of the still standing Havre de Grace Colored High School located at Stokes and Alliance Streets, she went on to the Maryland State Teacher College which is Maryland's oldest historically black university. Mrs. Grant is a well-known community activist who was a significant influence in the integration, or at least the de-segregation, of the Harford County Public School system. A party to, and sometime the initiator of, five court cases, Mrs. Grant has always been willing to risk it all for what she believes in. Even though the 1954 U. S. Supreme Court case Brown v. The Board of Education ruled that segregated schools are "inherently unequal", it took Harford County 12 years (until the 1965-66 school year) to be fully integrated. And, according to Mrs. Grant, the discrimination of black teachers in Harford County continued for several more decades.

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Harford County Public Library

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