The Lincoln School Story

PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Wednesday, May 15, at 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 16, at 2:30 AM
Sunday, May 19, at 11 PM
Friday, May 31, at 5 PM 

PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Thursday, May 16, at 8 PM 
Friday, May 24, at 7 PM  

This documentary follows the heroic 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. With Constance Baker Motley as the lead lawyer and with help from a fledgling NAACP chapter, they started one of the nation’s first civil rights marches to end school segregation. While the lawsuit wound through the courts, the mothers and children marched every day, despite threats, cross burnings and job losses.