Russell Ellsworth Lovell II

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School segregation was the law of the land in the U.S. during much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com

Who was the first Black child to go to an integrated school?

Russell Ellsworth Lovell II, Drake University

School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.
  • Location: Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
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