The Lincoln School Story
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Sunday, Jan. 18, at 2:30 PM
Discover the little-known fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954.
In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, school districts nationwide were mandated to integrate. But when African American mothers in Hillsboro, Ohio, tried to enroll their children in the local, historically white schools, the school board refused to comply. Five mothers and their children took the school board to court and eventually their children became the first Black students to attend a high-quality local elementary school.
