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Springfield Township High School students, Paris Thompson (third from left), Gabrielle Greene (third from right) and Candace Harrison (second from right), along with other members of the Cheltenham Branch NAACP Youth Leadership Committee attend a Breonna Taylor rally. (Courtesy of Liza Meiris)
The Youth Leadership Committee of the NAACP’s Cheltenham Branch went public last week with a video sharing anonymous stories of discrimination inside Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County. The group is inviting the public to a Zoom town hall at 7 p.m. May 19 to talk about ways to promote anti-racism in schools.
Students from the Cheltenham NAACP Branch had already been working for six months on racial justice issues inside local schools, but mostly at Springfield Township High School, which is more than 70% white, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. (The branch serves Cheltenham, Springfield, Jenkintown, Plymouth Meeting, and Whitemarsh.)