{"id":63671,"date":"2022-04-15T00:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T00:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63671"},"modified":"2022-04-15T00:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T00:17:13","slug":"june-shagaloff-alexander-school-desegregation-leader-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63671","title":{"rendered":"June Shagaloff Alexander, School Desegregation Leader, Dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"

June Shagaloff Alexander, School Desegregation Leader, Dies at 93<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2022-04-06<\/p>\n

Clay Risen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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June Shagaloff<\/a> in 1953. Thurgood Marshall hired her out of college to work for the N.A.A.C.P.<\/a> on school desegregation cases. Bill Sullivan\/Newsday RM via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She helped Thurgood Marshall<\/a> prepare for his Supreme Court<\/a> fight and later took on de facto school segregation across the North<\/a> and West<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

June Shagaloff Alexander<\/a>, whose work for the N.A.A.C.P.<\/a> and its legal arm in the 1950s and \u201960s put her at the forefront of the nationwide fight for school integration and made her a close confidante of civil rights figures like Thurgood Marshall and James Baldwin<\/a>, died on March 29 at her home in Tel Aviv<\/a>. She was 93…<\/p>\n

…Although she was white, her dark complexion sometimes led people to assume she was Black, to the point of barring her from certain whites-only public spaces, an experience that she said shaped her early commitment to civil rights.<\/p>\n

But this ambiguity proved to be an asset in her work. When investigating a segregated school district, she would visit a white school pretending to be a prospective white parent, then do the same at a Black school, pretending to be a prospective Black parent \u2014 a ruse that gave her a unique, unvarnished view of the district\u2019s education inequities…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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