This interview with Mrs. Arlonial DeLaine Bradford details many of her experiences growing up and raising children during integration in the south. As the niece of civil rights icon, Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Mrs. Bradford gives firsthand and intimate accounts of his successes and struggles throughout the school desegregation movement. Mrs. Bradford also explores her children's experience being the first to integrate Anderson Elementary in Kingstree, South Carolina. The interview was done in conjunction with the "Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American "first children" who desegregated America's schools.
School Integration--Southern States, African Americans students--South Carolina--History--20th century, African American mothers, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Summerton (S.C.), African Americans--Education--South Carolina--Summerton, Delaine, Joseph A., 1898-1974✖[remove]1
