A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rachel Devlin.
Material type: SoundPublisher: [New York] : Hachette Book Group, [2018]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 11 audio discs (12.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781549199554
- 1549199552
- 9781549199585
- 1549199587
- Segregation in education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Discrimination in education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- School integration -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Educational equalization -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African American girls -- Education -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | 379.263 D497 | Available | 33111009104320 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Compact discs.
Read by Robin Miles.
Historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of young women who were desegregation's pioneers and illuminates today's ongoing struggle.