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LeAndrew Wiggins and Dwania Kyles
From the Collection: Pain and Promise: Remembering the Fight for School IntegrationIn this recording, Dwania Kyles speaks with LeAndrew Wiggins, both members of the Memphis 13, the first group of children to integrate Memphis public schools in 1961. LeAndrew describes being an “alternate”; a student chosen to join the integration process with only a few day’s notice. Dwania, whose parents moved to Memphis from Chicago to join the Civil Rights Movement, was volunteered to integrate, saying that her family believed in leading by example.