Nashville First Graders Desegregate Public Schools September 9, 1957: Nineteen black first-graders enter formerly all-white schools as Nashville becomes the first city in the South to begin the desegregation process for a public education system.
The parents of six-year-old Sinclair Lee, Jr., lead their son to Glenn Elementary, Nashville, TN, September 1957. Š Nashville Public Library. Courtesy of SouthernSpaces.org.
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