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Meet Bernyce Mills-DeVaughn, The Freedom Fighter Who Helped Integrate Philadelphia's Girard College
She was just 16 years old in the mid-1960s when the Norfolk, Virginia, native moved to North Philadelphia near Girard College.
February 16, 2024
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A woman who marched to force the integration of an all-White boys' school in North Philadelphia shared her story at a Black History Month program at Arcadia University Thursday evening.
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"We saw them picketing at Girard College and we started walking with them," 76-year-old Bernyce Mills-DeVaughn said.
She was just 16 years old in the mid-1960s when the Norfolk, Virginia, native moved to North Philadelphia near Girard College. Back then, it was an all-boys school for only White orphans.
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