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"Recovering Untold Stories": Civil Rights Veteran Revisits School Victory

Westside Gazette - 3/6/2020

COLUMBIA, S.C. - As a child in South Carolina after World War Two, Celestine Parson Lloyd took part in a groundbreaking study to fight school segregation, a fight her parents and NAACP lawyers carried to victory in the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Jan. 15, Ms. Parson Lloyd, now of Mount Vernon, New York, relived a moment of that fight-and the victory-as part of the public panel "Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision" organized by the University of South Carolina Center for Civil Rights History and Research and the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission.

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