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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Devlin, Rachel (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.