{"id":31568,"date":"2013-06-08T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31568"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:43:13","slug":"photo-of-the-week-an-interracial-family-in-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31568","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/photo-of-the-week-an-interracial-family-in-1962\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynhistory.org\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynhistory.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Brooklyn Historical Society<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:ssullivan@brooklynhistory.org\" target=\"_blank\">Sady Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>, Director of Oral History<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"502\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/photo-of-the-week-an-interracial-family-in-1962\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bhs_v1989.22.14.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>The Bibuld Family<\/em>, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This photograph from the Brooklyn <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congress_of_Racial_Equality\" target=\"_blank\">Congress of Racial Equality<\/a> (CORE) collection shows the Bibuld family: parents Elaine and Jerome, and their three children Melanie, Carrington, and Douglass (L to R).<\/p>\n<p>The Bibulds, an interracial family, lived in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crown_Heights,_Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Heights<\/a> in the early 1960s and the children attended a neighborhood school that had a Gifted and Talented program and enrichments like art, music, and field trips.\u00a0 After their home caught fire in the fall of 1962, the Bibulds moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Park_Slope,_Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Park Slope<\/a>, and the children\u2019s new neighborhood school had substandard academics and few enrichments \u2014 and the student body was more than 70% African American and Puerto Rican.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine and Jerry Bibuld, both members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a> chapter of CORE, were angered by this educational inequity and concerned for their children who were very bored at their new school. So, they pulled their children out of this racially segregated public school and sat them in an all-white school in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bath_Beach,_Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Bath Beach<\/a> section of Brooklyn. Technically, the children were not enrolled in school and the City considered them truants, which opened the parents up to imprisonment for parental neglect. For roughly three months, the <strong>Bibuld protest was the most important desegregation case in the city&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/photo-of-the-week-an-interracial-family-in-1962\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962 The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog The Brooklyn Historical Society 2013-06-05 Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History The Bibuld Family, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society. This photograph from the Brooklyn Congress of Racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[14884,6675,6560,14880,14882,14883,14886,14887,2711,6576,14881,14879],"class_list":["post-31568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bob-adelman","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-brooklyn-historical-society-blog-brooklyn-historical-society-blog","tag-congress-of-racial-equality","tag-core","tag-elaine-bibuld","tag-jerome-bibuld","tag-new-york","tag-sady-sullivan","tag-the-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-the-brooklyn-historical-society-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}