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Author Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-

Title Sarah's long walk : the free Blacks of Boston and how their struggle for equality changed America / Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 300 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : Brown and before -- A star in the East. The lawyer ; Slopes of Beacon Hill ; Through the vestry window ; First class ; Mr. Prejudice -- Equality before the law. The client ; A gathering tempest ; No neutrals ; A Brahmin of Black Beacon Hill ; The argument ; A doctrine is born -- Let us be bold. Vigilance ; New alliances, new divisions ; So close to passing ; September 3, 1855 ; Rock the cradle of liberty -- Epilogue : Brown and beyond
Notes Map on endpapers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-288) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Roberts, Sarah C., 1844- -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Roberts, Sarah C., 1844- fast
Subject Free African Americans -- Civil rights -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History
African Americans -- Segregation -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History
Segregation in education -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History
Free African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
African American girls -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American girls
African Americans -- Segregation
Free African Americans
Race relations
Segregation in education
SUBJECT Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) -- History
Subject Massachusetts -- Boston
Massachusetts -- Boston -- Beacon Hill
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kendrick, Paul, 1983-
ISBN 0807050199
9780807050194
0807050180
9780807050187
9780807050170
0807050172