Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807050180 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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The authors handle the weighty issue of desegregation with skill; this is a book for historians and humanitarians. Most notably, the authors unearth considerable information about Robert Morris, the attorney who represented Sarah Roberts, whose name has been left out or listed incorrectly in many accounts of the court case. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Minister and novelist Stephen Kendrick (Night Watch) collaborates with his college student son, Paul, to recount the story of Sarah Roberts, who, in 1848, at five years old, became a symbol of the plight of free blacks "forced to persevere in unjust circumstances." Because Sarah had to walk past five wh
AvidReader said WOW!. This is such a powerful story of some of America's earliest Civil rights leaders. In a time when slavery was still legal and fugitive slaves were being hunted down, a group of courageous African Americans dared to stand for desegregation of schools. And they won the fight! You'll find yourself cheering as they pray for the impossible and it comes to pass. The authors have done an incredible job of researching little known and hard to find historical facts to present this remarkable story that proves people can make a big difference. This lays the foundation for be. Pride of Boston So you want to be proud of Boston?Yes there are Red Sox and Celtics and ok, John Adams, but you ain't seen nothing yet.Read this book and tell your friends about it. Sarah herself is somewhat inconsequentialbut the scences, the smells, the names, the flavors, the historythese make it an awesome read. Buy it even if you are not from Boston, but just love history and justice. Buy it for your friends.Buy it now!!!. A very well-written history and a good read Sarah's Long Walk is a very well-researched historical view of a fascinating time in Boston history. As a native of Boston, I quickly became aware of how much I DON'T know about this side of Boston history as I read the book. It was a rare treat to be educated by the history and entertained by the well-recounted stories. I highly recommend the book!
Board of Education to desegregate America's schools. The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schoolsOne fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, Benjamin Roberts resolved to sue the city of Boston on her behalf.Thus began what would be a more than one-hundred-year struggle that culminated in 1954 with the unanimous decision in Brown v. Sarah's Long Walk recovers the stories of white and black Boston; of Beacon Hill in the nineteenth century; of twenty-four-year-old Robert Morris, the black lawyer who tried the case; and of all the people who participated in this early struggle to desegregate Boston's schools.Stephen Kendrick and his son, Paul, have told Sarah's story—previously a mere footnote in the history books—with color and imagination, bringing out the human side of this very important struggle. Sarah's Long Walk is popular history at its best.. Today, few have heard of the Roberts case or of the black abolitionist printer whose love for his daughter started it all, but now