The Girls Who Desegregated America’s Schools

Sat Jan 11 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-06:00

345 Kellogg Blvd W, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Minnesota 55102 | Saint Paul

Minnesota History Center
Publisher/HostMinnesota History Center
The Girls Who Desegregated America\u2019s Schools
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Historian Rachel Devlin shows how young Black girls were at the center of the grassroots movement to desegregate America’s schools and fight racial inequity in public education. In her award-winning book A Girl Stands at the Door, Devlin takes us beyond the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and refocuses our attention on the remarkable stories of the young Black girls who led the fight. From filing desegregation lawsuits with their parents, to bravely enduring harassment and abuse while integrating formerly all-white schools, Black girls took on the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools. A revelatory history that recovers the underappreciated contributions of a generation of civil rights pioneers.
Biography:
Rachel Devlin is professor of History at Rutgers University and a historian of the cultural politics of girlhood, sexuality, and race in the Postwar United States. She is the author of the award-winning book A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America's Schools and Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture.
Note: Lectures will have live captioning
This lecture is part of the History Forum series. Visit The History Forum landing page for more information.
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