Title A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rachel Devlin.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2018.
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East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	LP 379.2 DEVLIN	Check Shelf
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Edition	Large print edition.
Description	611 pages (large print), [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Physical Medium	large print rda
Series	Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-607).
Summary	The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents filed lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take the issue to the Supreme Count. After "Brown v. Board of Education," girls far outnumbered boys as volunteers to desegregate schools. Historian Rachel Devlin tells their remarkable stories, and explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of crossing color lines.
Subject	Segregation in education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Discrimination in education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	School integration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Educational equalization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	African American girls -- Education -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Large type books.
	Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
	Discrimination in education. (OCoLC)fst00895037
	Educational equalization. (OCoLC)fst00903418
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
	School integration. (OCoLC)fst01107474
	Segregation in education. (OCoLC)fst01111221
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
	LAW / Civil Rights.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781432853198 (hardcover)
	1432853198 (hardcover)

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