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A girl stands at the door :
Title :
A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rachel Devlin.
Title:
A girl stands at the door :
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
xxx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781541697331
Production / Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Contents:
Roots of change: Lucile Bluford's long crusade -- "This lone negro girl": Ada Lois Sipuel, desegregation champion -- Girls on the front line: grassroots challenges in the late 1940s -- Laying the groundwork: Esther Brown and the struggle in South Park, Kansas -- "Hearts and minds": the road to Brown v. Board of Education -- "Take care of my baby": the isolation of the first "firsts" -- "We raised our hands and said 'yes we will go'": desegregating schools in the mid-1960s.
Summary:
"A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools. In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools. Highlighting the extraordinary bravery of young black women, this bold revisionist account illuminates today's ongoing struggles for equality"--Amazon.com.
Bibliography note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language:
English
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