School integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C., 1955. Digital History ID 4173

School integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C., 1955.

Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: photograph
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Annotation: Photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran. This image of an integrated classroom in the previously all white Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C., shows how the District's Board of Education attempted to act quickly to carry out the Supreme Court decision to integrate schools in the area. However, it did take longer for the junior and senior high schools to integrate. -Library of Congress
Year: 1955

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