Millicent Brown Helped Desegregate Public Schools In South Carolina. Now She’s Sharing Her Civil Rights Journey In A New Book

Millicent Brown Helped Desegregate Public Schools In South Carolina. Now She’s Sharing Her Civil Rights Journey In A New Book

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated May 28, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court declared that legal racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional through Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. However, despite this ruling, public schools took years to integrate.

In South Carolina, school desegregation did not begin until 1963, when Judge Robert Martin ruled in Millicent

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