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A girl stands at the door, the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools, Rachel Devlin

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A girl stands at the door, the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools, Rachel Devlin
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-607)
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
A girl stands at the door
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bibliography
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1038406352
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Rachel Devlin
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the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
Summary
The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents filed lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take the issue to the Supreme Count. After "Brown v. Board of Education," girls far outnumbered boys as volunteers to desegregate schools. Historian Rachel Devlin tells their remarkable stories, and explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of crossing color lines
Table of 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

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