Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807050194)

In 1847, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, her father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston on her behalf. The historic case that followed set the stage for over a century of struggle, culminating in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Author: Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick
ISBN-10: 0807050199
ISBN-13: 9780807050194
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2006 pg. 1 - Outstanding