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.

"Here he [the author] looks in detail at a dozen rampant and long-lived examples of this vigorous category of contemporary folklore, tracing their historyies, variations, sources, and meanings."--Jacket.

This second installment of The Finish Line Series finds Ireland Murphy and Michael Farino fighting for their relationship, and for their lives. Unknown forces threaten them, causing both to take matters into their own hands. Michael and Ilee need to find out who is behind this in order to stop it. The list of suspects runs deep, thanks to both of their crime families and their personal life choices. Revelations about both of them, and their families, lead to intense passion, suspicion, betrayal, revealed secrets and a desperate attempt at regaining control of their future. What that future looks like, and who will or will not be in it, is decided.

Important American periodical dating back to 1850.