UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

 

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Identifier

35160004356060

Creation Date

9-10-1956

Subject—Topics

Desegregation; Education

Description

Texarkana, Tex.: Part of a crowd of several hundred persons, that turned back two Negroes who sought to enter Texarkana Junior College here September 10th, stand in front of the school, while in the foreground Texas Rangers and Bowie (Texas) County officers stand by. One of the Rangers said they had no authority to escort the two students, one of them a girl, into the school.

Format

BW Photograph, 9"x 6.5"

Source

United Press International

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Keywords

African Americans, history, United States, prejudice, desegregation, civil rights movement, Black Panthers

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