Delois Huntley (June 2, 1945 – May 10, 2015) was an American civil rights pioneer and one of four black students to integrate Charlotte schools, by enrolling in the all-White Alexander Graham Junior High.
[1] Huntley was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up in the predominantly Black neighborhood Second Ward, also called Brooklyn, which was just three blocks from Alexander Graham Junior High.
In 1956, forty Black students from North Carolina applied to transfer to a white school was after the passing of the Pearsall Plan.
At one point during a boy wiped the sweat from his brow onto her face, and some students would whisper disturbing things to Huntley.
[1] She told the Charlotte Observer that she remembered her father fielding threatening phone calls, staying up all throughout the night to keep watch, and going to work barely getting sleep.