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

by Stephen Kendrick

2021-01-08 05:37:38

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 awa... Read more
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. Less

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File size9.1 X 6.1 X 0.5 in
Print pages328
PublisherBeacon Press
Publication date February 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780807050194
Stephen Kendrick is the author of Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes (available in paperback from Vintage Books). He is the minister of First and Second Church, Boston, and has previo...

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