The Little Lectures are informal programs featuring speakers on a variety of topics. In-person programs are presented on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at our headquarters located at 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, in the parlor of MacFarland-Hubbard House. rrThe Civil Rights movement of the 1960s often monopolizes popular memory of the era, crowding out earlier generations of Black activism. Prior efforts, however, laid the foundation for those hard-won successes. This Little Lecture will focus on 1940s desegregation battles at college campuses in the “border states” of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri—early struggles whose mixed results eventually led to Brown v. Board and accelerated the end of Jim Crow.rrThe Civil Rights movement of the 1960s often monopolizes popular memory of the era, crowding out earlier generations of Black activism. Prior efforts, however, laid the foundation for those hard-won successes. This Little Lecture will focus on 1940s desegregation battles at college campuses in the “border states” of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri—early struggles whose mixed results eventually led to Brown v. Board and accelerated the end of Jim Crow.