A Look at Black Educational Opportunities in Wilmington NC

In this project, students began with analysis of archival documents regarding segregation and integration in Wilmington. They identified a significant tension in the city after the closing of Williston High School, the school for Black students, and the integration of remaining schools. Finding both letters and official documents for students' requests to be assigned to alternative schools after redistricting, the group decided to trace whether those requests were granted by the school district and what seems to have happened to these requesting students after graduation. In this project, which combined a mapping of school and home locations and narratives of the individual students, the group was able to develop a complex analysis of the results of school inequality and privilege.