White Girl : A Story of School Desegregation /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silverstein, Clara, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Silverstein, Clara, > 1960-
Silverstein, Clara, > 1960- > Childhood and youth.
School integration > Richmond (Va.) > History.
Whites.
Girls > Richmond (Va.)
Middle school students.
Children > Richmond (Va.)
Rassentrennung
Mädchen
Middle school
White people.
School integration
Race relations
Middle school students
Girls
Children, White
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Desegregation en education > Virginie > Richmond > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Blancs > Virginie > Richmond > Biographies.
Éleves d'ecole moyenne > Virginie > Richmond > Biographies.
Enfants blancs > Virginie > Richmond > Biographies.
School integration > Virginia > Richmond > History > 20th century.
White people > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Girls > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Middle school students > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Children, White > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Richmond (Va.) > Biography.
Richmond (Va.) > Race relations.
Richmond, Va.
Virginia > Richmond
Erlebnisbericht.
Biographies.
History
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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