image of banner for Opening Doors, Opening Minds: A Celebration of Brown v Board of Education's Impact at MWC and Beyond

April 5th - August 1st, 2004

Simpson Library, 1st Floor Lobby

 

image of lunch counter sit-in

"Teens staged sit-ins at Fredericksburg lunch counters during the 1960s, demanding that they be served like their white peers."

Photo and caption courtesy of the Free Lance-Star

   image of Venus Jones

Venus Jones, first African-American graduate, senior photo

The Battlefield 1968, pg. 88

 
Program and exhibits coordinated by Phyllis Johnson and Carolyn Parsons.
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