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It Wasnt Little Rock

It Wasnt Little Rock

Press Collection (Library of Congress) Staff, Clarissa T. Sligh, Press Staff Visual Studies Workshop

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Author describes her family's experience with racism and school integration. As a high school student, the author was named lead plaintiff in Clarissa Thompson et al. v. County School Board of Arlington County (June 1956), a school desegregation class action suit filed in U.S. District Court.

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OL Work ID
OL27208155W

Subjects

ArtArtists' booksCivil rightsPersonal narrativesSchool integrationHistoryRace relationsFamilyTrials, litigationRacism in artSegregation in educationLaw and legislationDiscrimination in educationAffirmative action programs in educationAfrican AmericansEducationLegal status, lawsSpecimens

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