Right in the Sight of God

In 1955 the Hoxie Public School board, located in Hoxie, AR, voted unanimously to integrate the colored school into the main school. This decision made Hoxie the third school in Arkansas to integrate following Brown v. Board of Education. Just a month later, LIFE Magazine would come to the school and photo the integration efforts. LIFE would publish an article praising the schools decision to do what was not only the law, but morally right. Segregationist groups would arrive after the article publication to try and stifle the schools integration. It was the first school in the nation to go to Federal Court following Brown v. Board of Education. These are the stories of first hand accounts from those who were there, and those whose generations came later that benefited from the schools stand against racial discrimination.