Fighter pilot, Tuskegee airmen honored as ‘Shaw Fourteen’ whose lawsuit compelled desegregation of schools in Sumter

A different kind of fight

BY KAYLA ROBINS
kayla@theitem.com
Posted 2/17/19

Jim Crow didn't wear a military uniform after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case ruled segregated public schools were unconstitutional, but school districts across the South needed another legal push to enact integration.

One of those …

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