Separate No More
The Long Road to Brown V. Board of Education
New York : Scholastic Focus, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
An evocative chronicle of the battle that led to America's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling shares insights into the abuses of the "separate but equal" system and how such courageous activists as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois helped end legal segregation.
Contents:
Prologue: The end of a long wait -- Separate -- Land of Lincoln -- Resistance -- From the ashes of Springfield -- To the courts -- The red summer -- Passing the torch: The new Negro movement -- The challenge -- To the courts once more -- Thurgood Marshall joins the fray -- Setbacks -- No turning back -- Renewing the attack -- A school of one's own -- The main event -- Student revolt -- Kansas -- The battle is joined -- A change at the top -- Round 2 -- The meaning of equality -- Making it real -- Legacy.
Subjects:
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages 12 and up.
ISBN:
9781338592832
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T LAW Gol | Southeast | Teen Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index.