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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only-or even always the dominant-civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans also fought for separate, Black-controlled schools dedicated to racial uplift, community empowerment, and self-determination. An African American Dilemma offers a social history of debates over...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of the effort by nine brave African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, discussing the historical background of segregation, the violence that occurred, and later developments.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Siete años antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia Méndez luchó para acabar con la segregación en las escuelas de California. Descubre su increíble historia en este libro para niños del galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh. ¡Mención de Honor del Premio Pura Belpré al Ilustrador y Mención de Honor del Premio Robert F. Sibert!Cuando su familia se mudó al pueblo de Westminster, California, la pequeña Silvia Méndez estaba...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up to Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class, but the journey of the "Little Rock Nine" would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change America. Descended from a line of proud black landowners and businessmen, Carlotta was...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, after the passing of Brown v Board, one county in southern Virginia chose to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those public schools stayed closed for five years. This was the reality of the people of Prince Edward County. When theaffluent white population of Prince Edward County built a private school--for white children only--they left Black children and their families with very few options. Some Black children were home schooled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
91) Remedying school segregation: How New Jersey's Morris School district chose to make diversity work
Author
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lily Polkadot, who has just moved into the Squares Only town of Rockaway, is the first Polkadot in an all-Square school and must cope with constant bullying and restricted drinking fountains while seeking acceptance from her peers. Inspired by American civil rights history that involved the Little Rock Nine--nine teenagers who were enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 following the U.S. Supreme Court decision for desegregation of schools....
98) Little Rock nine
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
William makes friends with Thomas, the son of his family's black maid, and they both become involved with an attempt to integrate a high school in their town of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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