Brown v. Board of Education | Sit-Ins

Brown v. Board of Education

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Brown v. Board of Education Booklet

Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education

By Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton (Joint Author), Elaine R. Jones (Foreword by)

Fire from the Rock

By Sharon Draper

The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

By Susan E. Goodman, E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

By Teri Kanefield

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

By Rachel Devlin

The Kindness of Color

By Janice Munemitsu, foreword by Sylva Mendez

The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools

By Vanessa Siddle Walker

Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights

By Philippa Strum

 

Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Era

By Ruben Donato

The Price They Paid: Desegregation in an African American Community

By Vivian Gunn Morris, Curtis L. Morris

Remember: The Journey to School Integration

By Toni Morrison

 

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation*

By Duncan Tonatiuh

 

Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

By Richard Kluger

 

Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me

By John A. Stokes, Lois Wolfe (With), Herman Viola

 

Sylvia & Aki*

By Winifred Conkling

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality*

By Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy

Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

By Melba Pattillo Beals

 

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

By Carole Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue  (Illustrator)

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

By Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (illustrator)

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

By M. J. O'Brien, Julian Bond (Foreword by)

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