school integration

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

African-American teens Joe Billy King and Cilla Handsom face hatred and violence when their school is integrated with the local all-white school and gain a strength and courage that will follow them throughout their lives.

A retrospective look at the 1957 integration of nine African-American students into Little Rock Central High School that provides a look at the school fifty years later and discusses the event.

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.

Story of Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter, whose determination to build a better life led them to take advantage of new civil rights laws in 1965 and send their children to an all-white school in Sunflower County, Mississippi and whose family suffered threats, deprivation and torture as a result.

Presents an arguement by law scholar Derrick Bell that because of the perversity of racism, "Brown v. Board of Education" underminded African-American children's educational needs.

This book is a brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

"Presents information on the civil rights movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968, including background information, key events in the movement, and influential people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students."--Provided by publisher.

Recounts the story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans in the 1960s.

A fictional recreation of the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School, focusing on the experiences of two girl students, one white, the other black.