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Breaking the Barrier: For Civil Rights Pioneer, a life of quiet struggle

Number 21361
Subject Civil Rights
Source Los Angeles Times
State CA
Year 2004
Publication Date May 9
Summary This report by the Los Angeles Times focuses on the quiet, rarely recognized individuals involved in the Civil Rights Movement, including one of the first black students to be enrolled in a previously all-white high school. In 1957, Josephine Brown was enrolled in Greensboro Senior High School and became the first black person to graduate from an integrated school in North Carolina.
Category General
Pages 13
Keywords Greensboro Senior High School;Josephine Boyd;Brown v. Board of Education
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