school integration

Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans.

A profile of the Little Rock Nine, nine African-American students who, in accordance with the Supreme Court legislation that made segregation illegal, attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Chronicles the events behind a white uprising that occurred when Air Force veteran James Meredith tried to become the first African-American student to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962.

Presents the memoirs of Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the nine students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in September, 1957, that describes the experiences and challenges she and the others faced during their years at Central.

Presents the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was the first African-American student to integrate her local elementary school in New Orleans.

In small-town Texas in the mid-1950s, twelve-year-old Silvy tries to make sense of her parent's financial problems, a Supreme Court ruling that will integrate her school, the prejudice of her family and friends, and her own behavior, which always seems to be wrong.

The true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was one of the first African American students to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.

A biography of the civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1950s.

Contains eleven essays by various scholars in which they discuss the economic, constitutional, historical, and personal aspects of the crisis that occurred in Arkansas in 1957 when Gov. Orval Faubus defied federally-mandated segregation by trying to keep nine African-American students from entering Little Rock's Central High School.

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