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Thursday, 19 May 2005 01:00

Desegretation

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More than 50 years have passed since Brown vs. the Board of Education and many Floridians can’t remember a time when the state’s schools weren’t integrated – or the struggles that took place to bring integration about. But historians are working to create an oral history of those turbulent times – and preserve it for posterity. Earlier this month the DeSoto County Historical Society held a panel discussion on the desegregation process there. Valerie Alker was there and has this report. (AUDIO)



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