Rachel Devlin
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools.
Basic Books, 2018. Second printing. 9781541697331 xxx/342 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Jacket is preserved in a mylar cover.
"A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education. The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court After the Brown v Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools. "In A Girl Stands at the Door," historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools Highlighting the extraordinary bravery of young black women, this bold revisionist account illuminates today's ongoing struggles for equality."