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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People It Can Be Done!

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.174 Author/Creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: January 1955 Pagination: 11 p. ; Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 15.3 cm Order a Copy

One pamphlet entitled, "It Can Be Done!" dated January 1955 printed by the NAACP. Relays the progress of terminating school segregation. Contains images of integregated and segregated classrooms. Text details the progress of school districts in the South working towards integration; details the eforts to allow Shirley Bulah to be the first black student enrolled in Hockessin School in Delaware; the percentage of black teachers being hired; recommendations to American public schools in order to make progress towards transitioning into integrated schools.

Bulah, Shirley B., 1944-2003
Redding, Louis L., 1901-1998

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