City of Rockville recently issued the following announcement.
Rockville’s Role in the Education of African Americans, is a Black History Month talk by historian Ralph Buglass and co-sponsored by Peerless Rockville and Friends of the Library, Rockville Memorial Chapter. Admission is free.
Until the mid-20th century, schools in Rockville – as well as Montgomery County – were segregated. Rockville has played a major part in ever-increasing educational opportunities for African-American students, from a post-Civil War Freedmen’s Bureau school in a church basement to the only high school for black students in the county. In between, William B. Gibbs, Jr., a Rockville educator, and his then-little-known attorney, Thurgood Marshall, paved the way for equal pay for black teachers in one of the first legal challenges to segregated schooling. Buglass recounts this important chapter in American history.
Learn more at http://bit.ly/BlackHistoryMonth2019.
Details:
What: Rockville's Role in the Education of African Americans
When: Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 2 PM – 3:30 PM EST
Where: Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Rockville
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