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Item Nr: B 124515 Title: Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman
Length: 134 Prod/Pub: Holiday House
Copyright: 2016 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC. The decision was the culmination of work by many people who stood up to racial inequality, some risking significant danger and hardship, and of careful strategizing by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin tells the stories behind the ruling and the people responsible for it. She brings readers up to date with a country still grappling with a public shool system not yet fully desegregated. Timeline, source notes and index are included. Social studies. School integration. Narrative nonfiction. IL 6-10. AR 7.1. RC 8.3. Lexile 980.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  363 - COURTS/JUDICIAL SYSTEM
  1954 - JUVENILE NONFICTION
  657 - KANSAS
  1679 - LEXILE 900-999
  2003 - NARRATIVE
  1439 - PREJUDICES/PREJUDICE
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  966 - SCHOOLS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1138 - U.S. SUPREME COURT