Martha and Berda Lum: The Chinese American Schoolchildren Who Fought to Desegregate Southern Schools
9-year-old Martha Lum arrived for the primary day of faculty at Mississippi’s Rosedale consolidated highschool in 1924. It was her second year on the college, the place her older sister, Berda, was additionally a scholar, so she was already acquainted with the ins and outs. However by the recess that day, a superintendent instructed her…