Bound for Freedom (First Edition Inscribed by co-author Thomas Lasalle Maynard)

Sullivan, Neil V.; Maynard, Thomas LaSalle

Edité par Little Brown, 1965

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First Edition -- inscribed by co-author Thomas LaSalle Mayanrd -- of this history of the major battles over school segregation and desegregation in Prince Edward Virginia schools during in the 1950s and 1960s. A student strike over deplorable conditions at segregated Moton High School in Prince Edward County was among the key events leading the Supreme Court's Brown V. Board of Education decision desegregating in the national school. In response to Brown, wily segregationists in the county hatched a plan to maintain defacto school segregation in the county. Thomas LaSalle Maynard was the assistant principal of Moton High School in the turbulent era and Neil V. Sullivan was a distinguished northern handpicked by the President John F. Kennedy administration to serve as superintendent of the county's schools with a central goal of thwarting the segregationist schemes. Inscribed by Thomas Maynard to a previous owner on the title page. N° de réf. du vendeur 013590

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Titre : Bound for Freedom (First Edition Inscribed ...

Éditeur : Little Brown

Date d'édition : 1965

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Very Good

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition