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Footnote reveals a
buried past
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
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