Corinthian Nutter
(1906-2004)
- Left Texas home at age 15 to pursue education in North
- Sacrificed teaching position to protest segregation at school where she taught in Johnson County
- Taught students in parents' living rooms in protest
- Said "School shouldn't be for a color. They should be for children."
- Successfully helped desegregate Walker School in 1948
Photo courtesy Johnson County Museum
