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A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools Cover Image Book Book

A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools

Devlin, Rachel (author.).

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  • ISBN: 1541697332
  • ISBN: 9781541697331
  • Physical Description: xxx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-324) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Roots of change: Lucile Blueford's long crusade -- "This lone negro girl": Ada Lois Spiuel, 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.

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