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Fighting school segregation didn't take place just in the South

  • Written by Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor of History & African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
imageSchool boycott picketers march across the Brooklyn Bridge to the Board of Education in 1964.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

Whether it’s black-and-white photos of Arkansas’ Little Rock Nine or Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of New Orleans schoolgirl Ruby Bridges, images of school desegregation often make it seem as though it was...

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