Integration Sit-in #8, 1970

Integration Sit-in #8, 1970

Georgia--Fulton County
Student protesters
School integration

This image originated in 1970 at was then the Fulton County Schools administration building on Cleveland Avenue in East Point, Georgia. This student sit-in marked a time when the school system was grappling with desegregation in the wake of contested efforts to racially integrate both students and staff. Similar sit-ins and protests took place at schools and county offices before and after this photograph was taken. Behind the efforts to desegregate were directives from the federal government's Department of Health, Education and Welfare and and the board's own plan of gradual desegregation. Within a year of this photograph, the county schools were integrated.

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Fulton County Schools Archives, Hapeville, Ga

1970

1970.avpt.1.10.8