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The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schools One fall day in 1848, ...Show synopsisThe never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schools One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, Benjamin Roberts resolved to sue the city of Boston on her behalf. Thus began what would be a more than one-hundred-year struggle that culminated in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate America's schools. Today, few have heard of the Roberts case or of the black abolitionist printer whose love for his daughter started it all, but now, with Sarah's Long Walk, readers can learn about one black community's heroic struggle for equality. Sarah's Long Walk recovers the stories of white and black Boston; of Beacon Hill in the nineteenth century; of twenty-four-year-old Robert Morris, the black lawyer who tried the case; and of all the people who participated in this early struggle to desegregate Boston's schools. Stephen Kendrick and his son, Paul, have told Sarah's story--previously a mere footnote in the history books--with color and imagination, bringing out the human side of this very important struggle. Sarah's Long Walk is popular history at its best.Hide synopsis
Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and Their Struggle for Equality Changed America (Beacon Press (MA)) – Hardcover (2005)
by
Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick
Hardcover, Beacon Press (MA) 2005
English
320 pages
ISBN: 0807050180 ISBN-13: 9780807050187
The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schools One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, Benjamin Roberts resolved to sue the city of Boston on her behalf. Thus began what would be a more than one-hundred-year struggle ...Show moreThe never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schools One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, Benjamin Roberts resolved to sue the city of Boston on her behalf. Thus began what would be a more than one-hundred-year struggle that culminated in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate America's schools. Today, few have heard of the Roberts case or of the black abolitionist printer whose love for his daughter started it all, but now, with Sarah's Long Walk, readers can learn about one black community's heroic struggle for equality. Sarah's Long Walk recovers the stories of white and black Boston; of Beacon Hill in the nineteenth century; of twenty-four-year-old Robert Morris, the black lawyer who tried the case; and of all the people who participated in this early struggle to desegregate Boston's schools. Stephen Kendrick and his son, Paul, have told Sarah's story--previously a mere footnote in the history books--with color and imagination, bringing out the human side of this very important struggle. Sarah's Long Walk is popular history at its best.Hide
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