Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America / Edition 1

by Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick

Overview

In 1847, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, her father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston on her behalf. The historic case that followed set the stage for over a century of struggle, culminating in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807050194
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)