BGSU student’s film traces school desegregation in southern Ohio town

Shelly Howard

The story of how African-American families in a small southern Ohio farming town desegregated their public schools through community action is told in a new documentary by a BGSU student filmmaker titled “Community Crusaders: Desegregation in Hillsboro, Ohio.”

The filmmaker—Shelly Howard of Norwalk, Ohio—is a 2003 secondary education graduate. Her documentary captures on film the recollections of community leaders and the now-adult children who made civil rights history by forcing their local school board to obey the law.

To read more about Shelly Howard’s project, please click the link below:
www.bgsu.edu/offices/pr/monitor/pastissues/02-24-03/film.html