​In 1932, the Tredyffrin and Easttown jointure voted to convert a 1912 school building in Berwyn to an all "negro school" where students, faculty and staff would all be persons of color. They named it Lincoln Highway School. As a In response, the black communities in both townships were upset and disappointed about the segregation of their kids from the rest of the community. On March 16, 1932, Easttown Township witnessed a first mass meeting to protest the joint school boards decision. In attendance were several hundred black, and some white, residents as well as the leadership from the Bryn Mawr branch of the NAACP. African American lawyer Raymond Pace Alexander represented the black families in this cause. 
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When the situation was not resolved, parents decided to protest by not sending their kids to the segregated schools. The situation escalated when parents were arrested for refusing to pay a fine for the truancy of their children. The fight ended on a positive note when Attorney General William Schnader assisted the black community to end segregation of black and white children in Berwyn when by ruling that segregation was illegal.. 220 students returned to integrated schools and in 1935 the General Assembly passed an equal rights law banning discrimination of this kind.