Current Series Catalogue
Jim Crow's Children
With the 19th century Separate Car Act came an explosion of “separate
but equal” laws and court challenges to the laws. After decades
of Jim Crow Laws, courts finally concluded that separate could not
be equal and, with the Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board
of Education, segregation turned to integration. The more than one
hundred year history and modern legacy of segregation in America’s
schools is chronicled through this series.
Keith Weldon Medley, We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
This largely forgotten case established segregation as the law of
the land and prefigures both Rosa Parks’ defiance of bus segregation
in Alabama and the legal arguments of Brown v. Board of Education.
Melba Patillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir
of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
They didn’t start out being known as the Little Rock Nine but
now they are in America’s history books together.
Peter H. Irons, Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken
Promise of the Brown Decision
This engaging, insightful work covers the 150-year struggle to realize
the ideal of equality in public education and demonstrates that
the struggle continues.
Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
The biography of the first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice captures
Marshall’s irreverent, courageous and uncompromising personality.
Martha Southgate, Fall of Rome
Delving deeply into issues of self-hatred, race, and class, this
novel is told through the voices of three characters: classics teacher
Jerome Washington and new student Rashid Bryson, both African American,
and Jana Hansen, a white teacher newly arrived at the predominantly
white boys’ school in New England.
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