Susan Banyas
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, PortlandSusan Grace Banyas joins us to talk about her book The Hillsboro Story: A Kaleidoscope History of an Integration Battle in My Hometown, a multi-voiced tale that brings to light the courageous people who fought for integration and equal protection in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, at a time when Cold War tensions were at their peak. Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision, an eight-year-old girl named Susan Grace Banyas, living in the small town of Hillsboro, Ohio, bore witness to a courageous community protest staged to support and hasten the integration of her town's public schools, after the "colored school" was mysteriously set on fire. Five decades later, Banyas, now a…