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The school segregation cases (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and others) The school segregation cases (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and others) Janet Stevenson Details the events resulting in the court cases which led to the 1954 Supreme Court decision decreeing school integration. OL15083473W
Waiting for the BiblioBurro Waiting for the BiblioBurro Monica Brown When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to re… OL15455341W
Tessie Tessie Jesse Jackson When a young girl wins a scholarship and becomes the first Negro student an an exclusive private high school in New York, she enters a new world which must be reconciled with her Harlem background. OL16061391W
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County Kristen Green Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after the Brown v. Board of… OL17109398W
Reparation and reconciliation Reparation and reconciliation Christi Michelle Smith "This is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle cla… OL20048211W
Strategies of Segregation Strategies of Segregation David G. Garcia Unearths ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality OL20218847W
Legacies of Brown Legacies of Brown Stella M. Flores "This book illuminates the effects of segregation, desegregation, and integration on students, practitioners, communities, and policymakers in the fifty years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Edu… OL20545811W
The Brown v. Board of Education Trial The Brown v. Board of Education Trial Julia Garbus "Using primary and secondary sources, each volume provides background information on a significant event in modern world history, presents the controversies surrounding the event, and offers first-pe… OL23192737W
Equal schools for all without regard to color or race Equal schools for all without regard to color or race Jonas W. Clark Petition addressed "[t]o the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts" concerning a bill on segregation of schools. OL24694100W
Can we talk about race? Can we talk about race? Beverly Daniel Tatum Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School ResegregationMajor new reflections on race and schools — by the best-selling author of Why Are All the … OL2683673W
Equal! Equal! Leonard A. Stevens undifferentiated Traces the history of "Jim Crow" laws and the most important court decisions concerning them from 1896 to the present. OL3255942W
From Brown to Bakke From Brown to Bakke Wilkinson, J. Harvie Examines Supreme Court decisions in school integration cases from "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954 to the Bakke case in 1977. OL3336961W
Days of Courage Days of Courage Alex Haley,Mel Williges,Richard Kelso Days of Courage describes the experiences of the “Little Rock Nine”, the first African American students to begin the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. In 1954, the Supreme … OL4285474W
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950 Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950 Robert A. Margo The interrelation among race, schooling, and labor market opportunities of American blacks can help us make sense of the relatively poor economic status of blacks in contemporary society. The role of… OL4449156W
Brown v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education Diane L. Good Explains the history of segregation in the United States and cases that tested the law allowing "separate but equal" treatment, including the five cases that came together as Brown v. Board of Educat… OL4487352W
True fires True fires Susan Carol McCarthy In the idyllic town of Lake Esther, Florida, little is allowed to ripple the surface calm—which is just the way Sheriff Kyle Deluth likes it. But when Deluth "removes" two young children from the loc… OL6038385W
Brown v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education James T. Patterson,William W. Freehling Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in Ame… OL64769W
De facto segregation and civil rights De facto segregation and civil rights Oliver Schroeder homie was unable to get a job because of his race. OL6734154W