![]() It’s just a picture of kids, probably taken by another one of their friends, just marking a moment. Thirteen kids, seven white girls and six black boys, sitting on a porch together in 1974. It would probably look something like the photograph on the cover of Mary Barr's new book, Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston. Ted Landsmark, a lawyer and activist, attacked with an American flag by a white teenager during an anti-busing protest in Boston.īut what would it look like if desegregation had really worked-if only for a moment? Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old who tried to enter the segregated Little Rock Central High School, screamed at by a mob. There’s James Meredith, composed and brave in suit and tie, protected by federal marshals, the first black student at the University of Mississippi. ![]() Some of the most resonant images of American history come from the decades-long desegregation of America’s schools. It is now home to the Family Focus Center. Above: Foster School was an all-black school until 1967, when it was integrated and converted to a magnet school.
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