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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Kendrick Stephen <1954->
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| Titolo: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/073074461 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Boston (Mass.) Race relations |
| Boston (Mass.) Biography | |
| Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) Biography | |
| Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) History | |
| Altri autori: |
KendrickPaul <1983->
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| Note generali: | Map on endpapers. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-288) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, her father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston on her behalf. The historic case that followed set the stage for over a century of struggle, culminating in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sarah's long walk |
| ISBN: | 0-8070-5017-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910962935303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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