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

By Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807050199
• ISBN13: 9780807050194
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

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 inconsequential...but the scences, the smells, the names, the flavors, the history...these 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!!!