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Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America

By Stephen Kendrick , Paul Kendrick

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0807050199, 9780807050194, 9780807050170
Open Library ID
OL7944860M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2112632 bytes)
Pages
328\325
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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