A girl stands at the door
Subtitle: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
By: Rachel Devlin
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9781432853198
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Educational equalization; Segregation in education; School integration; Civil rights movements; Discrimination in education; African American girls; Large type books; Education; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-607).