I'll Stay With a Problem Longer Than Most People Will, You Know

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i became its principal on august eleventh. School had to be emigrated august twelfth. You know, i hired a white assistant. That was the first thing i did,. And i said to him, mister gilligan, you will be responsible for most of the administrative stuff. I want to be teaching people how to work with each other. So i spent my time in agran let's go. And then in the summer of 19 69, dudley flood got a call that there is a serious situation on ing in hyde county. And he was hired by the state department of public instruction to go there. He attended meetings of the boy cott families

15 years after the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the South were still segregated. Some school districts actively blocked desegregation. North Carolina passed legislation authorizing tuition grants to white private schools, sometimes called "segregation academies." Members of the KKK held rallies in North Carolina, describing desegregation as "anti-Christian" and "communistic." When the Federal government pressured school boards to comply or lose their funding, many responded by shuttering Black schools and assigning Black students to formerly all-white schools. It was called "one-way desegregation."

In a very rural part of North Carolina, Black students and their families decided to fight back.

We speak with Dr. Dudley E. Flood about his work desegregating every school in North Carolina.

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