American Experience
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
TV-PG
S35 • E8 Sep 11, 2023 1h 47mWhen the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi finally met the demand put forth in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. In the fall of 1970, a group of children entered school as part of the first class of Black and white students who would attend all 12 grades together.