Book
Separate no more : the long road to Brown v. Board of Education
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scholastic Focus, 2021.
Physical Description
xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. Scholastic Focus.
Summary
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
- 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.
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
- United States > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
- United States > Race relations.
- Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc. > Juvenile literature.
- Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc.
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Juvenile literature.
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc.