Grace Lorch

Little Rock Nine, Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas, Lee Lorch
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Grace Lonergan Lorch (ca. 1903-1974) was a teacher and civil rights activist best known for her work as a white escort for the Little Rock Nine. Lorch was a teacher in Boston and served as President of the Boston Teachers Union and as a member of the Boston Central Labour Council. She was the first teacher to challenge a Boston school regulation that female teachers resign after marriage, although unsuccessfully. Grace Lonergan married her husband Lee Lorch in 1943 as he was about to leave for military service in World War II. Despite having been a teacher for two decades she was dismissed due to an 1880s era rule of the Boston School Committee that banned teachers from marrying. Lorch appealed but the committee upheld the rule in 1944 and the publicity around Lorch's case led to a campaign to end the prohibition which was successful nine years later when, in 1953, the legislature voted to end the ban on married teachers. The Lorches were activists in the civil rights struggle in the 1940s and 1950s.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Flu Press
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138015611
• ISBN-10: 6138015614
• Artikelnr.: 34496963