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Kendrick Stephen <1954-> |
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Sarah's long walk : the free Blacks of Boston and how their struggle for equality changed America / / Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick |
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Boston, : Beacon Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Free African Americans - Civil rights - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
African Americans - Segregation - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
Segregation in education - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
Free African Americans - Massachusetts - Boston |
African American girls - Massachusetts - Boston |
Boston (Mass.) Race relations |
Boston (Mass.) Biography |
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) Biography |
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-288) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- contents -- Introduction: Brown and Before -- Part 1: A Star in the East -- One: The Lawyer -- Two: The Slopes of Beacon Hill -- Three: Through the Vestry Window -- Four: First Class -- Five: "Mr. Prejudice" -- Part 2: Equality before the Law -- Six: The Client -- Seven: A Gathering Tempest -- Eight: No Neutrals -- Nine: A Brahmin of Black Beacon Hill -- Ten: The Argument -- Eleven: A Doctrine Is Born -- Part 3: Let Us Be Bold -- Twelve: Vigilance -- Thirteen: New Alliances, New Divisions -- Fourteen: So Close to Passing -- Fifteen: September 3, 1855 -- Sixteen: Rock the Cradle of Liberty -- Epilogue: Brown and Beyond -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
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In 1847, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, |
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