A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
by Devlin, Rachel (Author)
Summary
"A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with th... Full description
- 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.