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Questions For Further Exploration

Where was Wilson Riles born? What is the significance of his migration with his "foster" family?

 

How/why did Riles work for the Dunbar school?

 

Why was it important to desegregate Flagstaff schools in 1953?

 

What challenges surfaced as a result of desegregation of the public schools?

 

What was the impact of the Dunbar School closure on black teachers and families in the Flagstaff community?

 

What are your ideas of the pros/cons of racial desegregation?

 

What are some of WIlson Riles's other accomplishments in the Flagstaff community?

 

What are the methods/strategies that Riles and others utilized to advocate for community change?

 

Did all ethnicities/races attend the newly desegregated public schools, or were some Flagstaff schools still segrregated?

 

How was segregation maintained after the Supreme Court declared "separate" schools were "inherently unequal"?

 

How does _______ (personal public school) compare to Flagstaff schools at the time? How does NAU compare?

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