school integration

Explains why busing was introduced, resistance to busing, its success and failure as a tool for desegregation, and alternatives to busing.

School integration brings many changes to the life of a southern girl as she enters junior high.

Describes how the desegregation of the Boston schools in the 1970's affected the lives of selected individual students and several adults, chosen to represent a cross section of the community.

Uses primary source photographs to discuss the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, including the nine African American students that successfully integrated the Arkansas school and the controversy and crisis surrounding the event. Includes a timeline and further resources.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

A history of African-American education, tracing the struggles of African-Americans for equal education rights from colonial times through the late twentieth century.

Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that her friend is actually an African American girl passing herself off as white, the two young girls must decide whether their friendship is worth taking on integration and the dangers it could bring to their families.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Presents a biography of Daisy Bates, examining her accomplishments as a civil rights activist, journalist, and organizer, and discussing her role as mentor to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that her friend is actually an African American girl passing herself off as white, the two young girls must decide whether their friendship is worth taking on integration and the dangers it could bring to their families.