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Desegregation

McKenney Library Sit In – 1960

November 8, 2015PermalinkzanspaceA Petersburg Moment in TimeAfrican Americans, Desegregation, Supreme Court

In the years following the epic Supreme Court decisions ending desegregation of schools, advocates of African-American equal access to public accommodations began to test the racial separation barriers erected during the reign of Jim Crow. In February, 1960, this crusade came to Petersburg, Virginia.
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