in textbooks. But the students who walked that gauntlet of violence showed extraordinary courage. Their story deserves to be remembered.✊🏾

Please watch this heartbreaking video featuring some of those brave students. 😔

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into 1967. The Grenada incident is a reminder that school integration wasn’t just a legal battle — it was a physical one. Black children risked their lives simply to claim the education they were promised. And like so many civil rights flashpoints, Grenada rarely appears (cont)

thousands of pages of reports on Grenada’s resistance to desegregation. Civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., traveled to Grenada to support the families. Even with federal orders, Black students continued to face intimidation and violence well (cont)

The mob went so far as to beat newsreporters (below) as well. The mob repeated this for the first week of school, while local law enforcement continued to do nothing. Despite national outrage, few attackers were punished. The violence was so severe that the FBI generated (cont)

chased them down, beating the children in the streets. Many were struck with fists, sticks, pipes, chains, and whatever people could grab. Police stood by or intervened weakly, often protecting the mob instead of the kids.

Of course. This was Mississippi.😡 (cont)

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Waiting for them was a large, hostile white mob. These were adults — not students — surrounding the schools, blocking entrances, shouting threats, and daring the children to try to walk through. When the children attempted to retreat, the mob (cont)

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windows were smashed with baseball bats. No meaningful protection or accountability whatsoever. Keep in mind, this was post-Jim Crow America. Then came Sept 12, 1966 — the first day of school. Roughly 250 Black students arrived to integrate the formerly all‑white schools. (cont)

coerce Black parents to withdraw their children from school. The intimidation resulted in 200 out of the 450 students to withdraw. Tensions were already high. On Sept 2, Black students tried to attend a white high school football game. They were beaten, and their car (cont)

A federal judge had ordered Grenada to desegregate in August 1966. About 450 Black students registered, but the school board stalled, delaying the opening by 10 days to resist integration. White racists used threats ranging from eviction to firing to(cont)
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Thank you, Ray! 💙

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