Martha and Berda Lum: The Chinese American Schoolchildren Who Fought to Desegregate Southern Schools

Martha and Berda Lum: The Chinese American Schoolchildren Who Fought to Desegregate Southern Schools

Nine-year-old Martha Lum arrived for the first day of school at Mississippi’s Rosedale consolidated high school in 1924. It was her second year at the school, where her older sister, Berda, was also a student, so she was already familiar with the ins and outs.