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White girl : a story of school desegregation /
This account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment, sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on, tripped, and shoved by her new schoolmates. At other times sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A school bus, a mother's tears
- Joined hands
- My father's last moments
- Ann and Lee, Mom and Dad
- Packing it in
- You talk like a Yankee
- Tomboys
- Freedom of choice
- yes! busing
- never!
- "Model" schools
- Interim integration
- Busing hits home
- Manners
- Jim Crow's legacy
- Liberal teacher, Southern lady
- The buses roll
- No one wants you here
- Black is beautiful
- Self-segregation
- Separate soundtracks
- In the classrooms
- My flag, my shame
- Girl talk
- Ebony and ivory
- The white boys
- Filmstrip in the dark
- The fox-trot, the cha-cha
- Invisible
- Voice of loneliness
- The liberals
- Legacy of defeat
- No yearbooks, no good-byes
- Singing "Dixie"
- The open high school
- I surrender!
- Belonging and not belonging
- Driving lessons
- Preppie envy
- A shell tossed into the ocean
- The education mom
- Racial differences still evident
- Was this a good school?
- My father's words
- I am Lee's daughter
- Splinters of glass.