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Book

Brown v. Board of Education : a fight for simple justice

Call Numbers

  • J 344.0798 RUBI (CEN, OSH)
  • 344.0798 R8965 TEEN (OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Holiday House, 2016.

Physical Description

134 pages : illustrations 26 cm

Summary

"In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC"--Dust jacket flap.

Contents

  • Introduction : what is segregation?
  • Challenging the law
  • Linda Carol Brown
  • Children are craving light
  • Stand together
  • Lasting injury
  • Student strike!
  • Playing for keeps
  • Mad at everyone
  • "We are all American"
  • In the minds of children
  • Helping make history
  • We knew we were right
  • We, too, are equal
  • The greatest victory
  • how things worked in America
  • Epilogue : the fight goes on.

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