A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rache...
A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rache...
A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rachel Devlin.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2018.
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G 2019/0041
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"Long before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, the struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement--and young women were its vanguard. In the 1940s parents and daughters began filing desegregation lawsuits, eventually forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take the issue to the Supreme...
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/0041
Record Identifier
74VKVjOXLvWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVjOXLvWy
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ISBN
1541697332 (hardcover)
9781541697331 (hardcover)
DDC
379.263
MMS ID
991024210059702626
