The HistoryMakers video oral history with A. Dwight Pettit.
Trial lawyer Alvin Dwight Petit was born on September 29, 1945 in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. In 1958, his father, an engineer, initiated a lawsuit against Harford County, Maryland school officials. Represented by Thurgood Marshall, Petit won his suit, forcing the school system to integrate the a...
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Chicago, Illinois :
The HistoryMakers,
[2016]
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