"Long before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, the struggle to desegregate America's sc
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English Pages 611 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 2018
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.