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Girard College Civil Rights Landmark PA805 Print E-mail
In 1930s, lawyer Raymond Pace Alexander challenged the school's restriction (mandated by Stephen Girard's 1831 will) to poor white orphans. Attorney Cecil B. Moore later went to the federal courts; by a 1968 ruling the school was opened to all races.
Corinthian and Girard Aves., Philadelphia. Philadelphia County Pennsylvania.
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