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Hoxie: The First Stand

In 1955, the school board of a small Arkansas town voluntarily integrated its schools, setting off the first confrontation with a growing Southern movement to resist the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Despite threats from outside agitators, the Hoxie board members refused to rescind their decision. Julian Bond narrates.

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