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Historic Voices, Compelling Stories “Diversity in Action” has been unmistakable at Brunswick this year as ’Wick boys welcomed three special visitors, each with a unique story to tell in the history of American civil rights.
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school and attend classes every day
Terrence Roberts was the first
for a year.
to visit, alerting the boys to the fight for school desegregation
in the 1950s. Roberts is one of the nine African
Daily violence ensued, Roberts told ’Wick middle School boys. “We took a vow of nonviolence,” Roberts recalled. “They simply
American teenagers who challenged
regarded us as stationary targets.
segregation at little Rock Central High
So we got beaten up every day.”
School in 1957. The young students
Roberts also visited with upper
braved angry mobs and national guard
School boys before presenting an eve-
soldiers to walk into an all-white high
ning talk to parents at Baker Theater.
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Dr. Terrence Roberts, Blake Booker ’14, Marianne Barnum, Dr. Thomas Nins, Clayton Adams ’15