Draft:Burglund High School
Burglund High School served black students in segregated it McComb, Mississippi. The school is now Higgins Middle School. Commodore Dewey Higgins was the school's principal who expelled students who were jailed for engaging in civil rights protests in Mississippi.
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Principal Dewey Higgins ordered that students jailed in civil rights protests would not be allowed to return to the school.[1][2] Commodore Dewey Higgins
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[edit]- ^ Forman, James (1997). The Making of Black Revolutionaries. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-97659-4.
- ^ Stoltzfus, Regina Shands; Shearer, Tobin Miller (2 November 2021). Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality. MennoMedia. ISBN 978-1-5138-0945-8.