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Sarah's long walk : the free Blacks of Boston and how their struggle for equality changed America / Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roberts, Sarah C., 1844---Trials, litigation, etc.
- Roberts, Sarah C.
- Free African Americans--Civil rights--Massachusetts--Boston--History.
- Free African Americans.
- African Americans--Segregation--Massachusetts--Boston--History.
- African Americans.
- Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston--History.
- Segregation in education.
- Free African Americans--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
- African American girls--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
- African American girls.
- Boston (Mass.)--Race relations.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Boston (Mass.)--Biography.
- Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.)--Biography.
- Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.).
- Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Contents:
- Intro
- contents
- Introduction: Brown and Before
- Part 1: A Star in the East
- One: The Lawyer
- Two: The Slopes of Beacon Hill
- Three: Through the Vestry Window
- Four: First Class
- Five: "Mr. Prejudice"
- Part 2: Equality before the Law
- Six: The Client
- Seven: A Gathering Tempest
- Eight: No Neutrals
- Nine: A Brahmin of Black Beacon Hill
- Ten: The Argument
- Eleven: A Doctrine Is Born
- Part 3: Let Us Be Bold
- Twelve: Vigilance
- Thirteen: New Alliances, New Divisions
- Fourteen: So Close to Passing
- Fifteen: September 3, 1855
- Sixteen: Rock the Cradle of Liberty
- Epilogue: Brown and Beyond
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Map on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8070-5017-2
- OCLC:
- 182530272
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