Millen Ellis Papers

Résumé du livre

Topics include desegregation / integration of public schools in Beaufort, S.C., during the 1960s, including a letter [ca. 1965] written by Ellis describing a tense school year as Beaufort High School teachers rode the buses to prevent potential violence between newly integrated students, "There were 27 Negroes on my bus and I had no incidents. Seven white women ganged up on Gene (Norris) because their children had to stand. Actually there were seats; they just didn't want to sit with the Negroes. My Negro children were cleaner and dressed better than the white children ... One white mother told my driver and me she would beat her children half to death if they touched a Negro but I noticed on Thursday her children were telling the Negro girls goodbye."