DescriptionSewanee Public School Desegregation Sign Rear Otey Parish.JPG
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DESEGREGATION OF FRANKLIN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
(Front)
Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education, eight local families initiated a lawsuit to compel Franklin County to desegregate the public school system. The plaintiffs included the Bates, Cameron, Camp, Goodstein, Hill, Sisk, Staten, and Turner families. They were represented by Nashville attorney Z. Alexander Looby and Jack Greenburg, Constance Banker Motley, and James M. Nabrit of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The case was successful, and in 1964, The U.S. District Court issued an order to desegregate the schools. This lawsuit was notable in that it involved both white and African-American plaintiffs.
(Rear)
The Sewanee community raised funds to add four new classrooms to the Sewanee Public School, located at this site, this eliminating the argument that there was insufficient space to educate all the community’s children together. Additionally, during the summer of 1964, Sewanee residents offered tutoring across the street at Otey Parish. This effort countered a second argument that African American children would not be adequately prepared to join their white children.
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