Plot: Six-year-old Yolanda Gabrielle, escorted by her mother, becomes the target of the taunts of a crowd of shouting segregationists as she makes her way to school, one of the few white children to continue attending after four African-American students were admitted to her first-grade class. Tessie Prevost, also 6, receives the protection of U

ABC Close Up! - Season 1 - The Children Were Watching (Episode 9)
Episode Aired On:
Monday, March 6 1961
64 years ago
Monday, March 6 1961
64 years ago