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Remembering John Earl Reese, killed resisting school desegregation
Original: Attempts to prevent implementation of # BrownVBoardOfEducation , ending the # segregation of schools, included the murde
On this day in 1955, 16-year-old John Earl Reese was murdered in Texas when white men fired nine shots into a café window, one of the violent attempts to block implementation of Brown v. Board of Education and the end of school segregation. Commenters are marking the anniversary as a reminder that resistance to desegregation was enforced through lethal racial violence.
Why now: The anniversary of Reese's 1955 murder is being marked as part of 'this day in history' reflections on racial violence during school desegregation.
John Earl ReeseBrown v. Board of EducationTexas
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