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Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Mar 3, 2022

The group of students who integrated Memphis schools more than 60 years ago were honored with a resolution by the Tennessee House of Representatives today, the Commercial Appeal reports. “After six decades, the state legislature is now honoring the Memphis 13 for the challenges they willingly accepted and conquered as young children to advance the cause of civil rights in Tennessee education," said Rep. G. A. Hardaway, D-Memphis. The Memphis 13, a group of 13 Black first graders, integrated four schools in the Memphis city school system in 1961.