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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Language
English
Description
"The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our nation's history. Yet looking back from the present day, we judge the integrationist dream post-Brown as an utter failure, in the belief that it harmed students and deepened racial divisions in our society. Though integration efforts continued into the...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a Black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education--establishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional right--but the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. In close to three dozen decisions on school desegregation, the Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for understanding or adjudicating between competing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Publisher
Guggenheim Productions
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
The film profiles the lives of the nine African-American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School during the fall of 1957. Nine from Little Rock documents the perspective of Jefferson Thomas and his fellow students seven years after their historic achievement. Central to this story is their quiet but brave entrance into Little Rock High, escorted by armed troops under the intense pressure of the on looking crowd. We learn first hand...
14) Ruby Bridges
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
Author
Publisher
Regeneration Writers Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An inspiring true story of how a courageous commitment to do the right thing in then-small Henry County, Georgia, helped to overcome fear and prejudice and stem the tide of racial injustice, opening a door of opportunity for generations who would follow. This story of a school leader and some brave children and their parents is a significant stanza in the anthem of the era's unsung heroes.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. This is her remarkable story. You will listen to the cruel taunts of her schoolmates and their parents. You will run with her from the threat of a lynch mob's...
20) Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
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