UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

 

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    Identifier

    35160004311172

    Creation Date

    9-10-1956

    Subject—Topics

    School integration; Desegregation; Black history; Civil rights

    Description

    Sturgis, KY: Evidence of the continuing racial disturbance in Sturgis are these National Guardsmen at the entrance to a local school, September 10th. Holding their weapons at the ready, the Guardsmen are about to escort a group of Negro students leaving the school. Later, the Sturgis school board barred the Negros on the grounds that they had been 'illegally admitted', and ordered them to attend a segregated Negro school.

    Format

    BW photograph, 7" x 9"

    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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