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Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
Sarah's Long Walk The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
Author: Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick
In the fall of 1848, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Her father, Benjamin Roberts, decided to sue the city to end this injustice. The historic court case that followed set the stage for over a cent...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807050194
ISBN-10: 0807050199
Publication Date: 4/26/2006
Pages: 300
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Type: Paperback
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