Educator Mary Jane Sevick remembers the day her students cleared their lockers at Robinswood Junior High School in response to a court order to desegregate Carver and Robinswood Junior High Schools. Hear her firsthand account of the event and the transition years in this excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Jane Sevick and her husband, religious educator, Frank Sevick, at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando on August 15th, 2011.
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Saint James Cathedral Community Life Center
Frank and Mary Jane Sevick, center, enjoy fellowship with Fran Krehl, seated on the right, in the Community Life Center at Saint James...
Orange County School Desgregation
December 25, 1976, article on Orange County School desegregation, "Bell Helped to Shape Orange Desegregation", from the Sentinel Star, 1B:4. Excerpt: ...
Educator Mary Jane Sevick remembers the day her students cleared their lockers at Robinswood Junior High School in response to a court order to desegregate Carver and Robinswood Junior High Schools. Hear her firsthand account of the event and the transition years in this excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Jane Sevick and her husband, religious educator, Frank Sevick, at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando on August 15th, 2011.
