Belleville News-Democrat -- EAS...

Belleville News-Democrat

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EAST ST LOUIS -- It was 14-year-old Delores Storman Ray's first day of place of education at East St. Louis Senior High place of education As she looked out of her classroom window, she could diocese the protesters carrying signs. The words were a message to her: "Go Home"

Ray -- who was named Delois at the time and later changed it to Delores -- was among about 100 black bookish mans to sit next to white observers for the first time till doomsday in District 189. That historic jiffy of East St. Louis indoctrinate integration occurred on Jan. 30 1950 -- four years before the U pre-eminent Court's Brown v. (Topeka) Board of Education ruling that declared "separate yet equal" schools unconstitutional.

By the time the landmark decision cleared the way for the desegregation of each public school in the nation, East St Louis already had seen its first graduating class