A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781541697331)

A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education

The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools.

In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools. Highlighting the extraordinary bravery of young black women, this bold revisionist account illuminates today's ongoing struggles for equality.

Author: Rachel Devlin
ISBN-10: 1541697332
ISBN-13: 9781541697331
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2018
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/26/2018
Library Journal 05/01/2018 pg. 74
Booklist 05/01/2018 pg. 50
Choice 01/01/2019