Breaking the Color Line: The Trial That Led to the End of Legal Segregation in Pennsylvania’s Schools
Posted by Todd Mealy on Jun 6, 2016 in | Comments Off on Breaking the Color Line: The Trial That Led to the End of Legal Segregation in Pennsylvania’s Schools The half-century following the Civil War was an unpleasant yet profound period of race relations in American history. To date, much of the scholarship about equal rights during that era concentrates on Southern reconstruction while ignoring some very important accomplishments in other parts of the country. Activists in Pennsylvania, for instance, took up a complicated struggle over state and...read more