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Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina

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Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina - Thomas, June Manning
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"The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg High School as one of thirteen Black students selected to integrate the all-White school, her classmates mocked, shunned, and yelled racial epithets at her. The trauma she experienced made her wonder if the slow-moving progress was worth the emotional sacrifice. In Struggling to Learn, Thomas, revisits her life growing up in the midst ...

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Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina 2022, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia

ISBN-13: 9781643362595

Hardcover