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Life on the Leading Edge of Democratic Reform: Student Perspectives on School Desegregation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2004

Marion Orr
Affiliation:
Brown University
Hanes Walton
Affiliation:
University of Michigan

Extract

“I was afraid. Some mornings I would get up and my mama would say ‘you know you don't have to do this thing.' My words to her were ‘yes ma'am I do’, because if they make me quit anyone who follows would have a rough road. I got to do this thing.” —Ulysses O. Bryant, Jr., the first African-American graduate of Savannah High School

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Symposium
Copyright
© 2004 by the American Political Science Association

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