A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools [First edition] 9781541616653, 9781541697331, 9781432853198, 1432853198, 1541697332

"Long before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, the struggle to desegregate America's sc

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A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools [First edition]
 9781541616653, 9781541697331, 9781432853198, 1432853198, 1541697332

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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