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A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel DevlinPublish date:2018-05-15Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541697331ISBN-10:1541697332UPC:9781541697331Book Category:History, EducationBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Women, HistorySize:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCTEBFNCM7

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541697331ISBN-10:1541697332UPC:9781541697331Book Category:History, EducationBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Women, HistorySize:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCTEBFNCM7
Rachel Devlin is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Publisher: Basic Books

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Rachel Devlin

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