Hoxie Glee Club

Eighth-grade girls’ Glee Club for the 1956 Hoxie (Lawrence County) High School school year, the first year schools in Hoxie were desegregated.

Group school photo with matching white girls and one black girl on bleachers below flag

Courtesy of the Museum of American History, Cabot Public Schools

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Category

Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / School Segregation and Desegregation

Type

Group

Gender

Female

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