Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America

In 1847, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, her father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston on her behalf. The historic case that followed set the stage for over a century of struggle, culminating in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Author: Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780807050194
ISBN10: 0807050199
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,
- History | United States | 19th Century