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Devlin, Rachel

 
9781541697331: A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
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ISBN 10 : 1541697332 ISBN 13 : 9781541697331
Editeur : Basic Books, 2018

Synopsis

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 their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools.

In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools. Highlighting the extraordinary bravery of young black women, this bold revisionist account illuminates today's ongoing struggles for equality

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À propos de l'auteur

Rachel Devlin is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1541697332
ISBN 13 
9781541697331
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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