During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.
Traces the efforts of the "Little Rock Nine" to attend a formerly all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September of 1957. Outlines the views and motivations of everyone involved in the desegregation of Central High School and discusses how it became a pivotal event in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement. Includes black-and-white photographs.
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
the searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
Beals, Melba
2007
Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.
Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
Tonatiuh, Duncan
Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California.
From sit-ins in whites-only diners to the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, the American civil rights movement is filled with stories of brave activists who proudly stood up to racial inequality.
Nine African-American teenagers from Little Rock, Arkansas, changed history when they went to Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Why? Because the school had previously been segregated. Read about their amazing story, their courageous determination, and how they succeeded in helping to eliminate segregation from the American school system forever.
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of school desegregation in the fifty years since the Brown verses Board of Education decision, charts the degree of interracial contact in schools, and examines how integration influenced the education of both African-American and white students.
