segregation in education

"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--Provided by publisher.

"In 1954, after the passing of Brown v Board, one county in southern Virginia chose to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those public schools stayed closed for five years. This was the reality of the people of Prince Edward County. When the affluent white population of Prince Edward County built a private school--for white children only--they left Black children and their families with very few options. Some Black children were home schooled by unemployed Black teachers. Some traveled thousands of miles to live with relatives, friends, or even strangers. Some didn't go to school at all. But many stood up and became young activists, fighting for one of the rights America claims belongs to all: the right to learn. [The author] shines a light on this disturbing and important chapter of America's history, with ripple effects that still impact the country to this day"--Provided by publisher.

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Arizona, while Mexican-American Sylvia's family leases their California farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

An autobiographical picture book tells the story of a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

"The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California" -- OCLC.

"School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement. He exposes the dangers lying behind the smoke and mirrors of the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparities have expanded rather than contracted in the years following Brown, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. Suitts deftly reveals the risk that America's underprivileged youth face as school voucher programs funnel public education funds into charter schools and predominantly white and wealthy private schools"--.

"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--Provided by publisher.

"When the father of Linda Brown, an African American, sued to let his child go to a white school closer to home, history was made. When the court decided that separate was inherently unequal, the world changed for many students across America. Readers will learn what led up to the case, how the case made it to the Supreme Court, and how this case changed everything when it came to race equality in the United States. Also included are questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology of the case"--Amazon.com.

Looks at how in 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts made history with her case of Roberts versus the City of Boston to outlaw segregated schools.

Examines the legacy and reverberations of "Brown v. Board of Education" on American schools, describing the original promise of "Brown" as more symbolic than effective, and discussing education struggles in the United States and throughout the world.