The first step
Subtitle: how one girl put segregation on trial
By: by Susan E. Goodman ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, Earl B., ill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802737397
Subjects: Education; Discrimination in education; Segregation in education; Law and legislation; Juvenile literature; African Americans
Description: In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only. Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made history. Roberts v. City of Boston was the first case challenging our legal system to outlaw segregated schools. It was the first time an African American lawyer argued in a supreme court.
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