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Selvin Backert

Selvin Backert is an Education Specialist at the Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket. The Museum of African American History is New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving, and interpreting the contributions of African Americans. It tells the story of organized Black communities from the Colonial Period through the 19th century.
Politics

100 Years Before Brown v. Board of Education, This 5-Year-Old Girl Resisted Segregation

Sarah Roberts had to walk past five white schools on her way to the one Black school every morning.