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

by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Book Overview

The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America"s public schools One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, Benjamin Roberts resolved to sue the city of Boston on her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807050180
• ISBN13: 9780807050187
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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!!!