Fort Bragg to dedicate school to Mildred Poole
More than 60 years ago, in a move that would cost her a job, Mildred Poole moved to defend education for all children — regardless of their race.She opened school doors for black children to join classes on Fort Bragg three years before Brown vs. Board of Education would force integration nationwide.She was fired a few years later.“I just did what my spirit told me was right and what I knew I had to do,” Poole told The Fayetteville Observer 33 […]
