A Minority of One--The Only Black in the School

Bruce Bisping

Minneapolis Tribune

Almost ten years after President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, young Bobby Jackson became the only black student at the Tanneyville Missouri R-2 school and a minority of one in Tanney County. Since the day Jackson started school two years ago it has been a revolution of acceptance and friendship in an area where the sun never on a black only ten years prior.

Bruce Bisping, "A Minority of One--The Only Black in the School," in POYi Archive, Item #8881, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/8881 (accessed November 21, 2024).