Desegregating Girard College

Dr. Albert Gaskins

In 1965, Cecil B. Moore led a protest campaign along the walls surrounding Girard College, a segregated boarding school for fatherless boys in Philadelphia. Dr. Albert Gaskins recalls the protest, which led to the desegregation of the school. Read more on Dr. Gaskins: A Pioneering Pediatrician Desegregates Philadelphia Boarding School.

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