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Author Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-

Title Sarah's long walk : the free Blacks of Boston and how their struggle for equality changed America / Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  305.896 KENDRICK    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.896 K34    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-288) and index.
Contents Introduction : Brown and before -- A star in the East. The lawyer ; Slopes of Beacon Hill ; Through the vestry window ; First class ; Mr. Prejudice -- Equality before the law. The client ; A gathering tempest ; No neutrals ; A Brahmin of Black Beacon Hill ; The argument ; A doctrine is born -- Let us be bold. Vigilance ; New alliances, new divisions ; So close to passing ; September 3, 1855 ; Rock the cradle of liberty -- Epilogue : Brown and beyond.
Subject Roberts, Sarah C., 1844- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Free African Americans -- Civil rights -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Segregation in education -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Free African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
African American girls -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations.
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography.
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) -- History.
Added Author Kendrick, Paul, 1983-
ISBN 0807050180 alkaline paper
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