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 century of struggle, culminating in 1954 with the
unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
"A carefully framed, evocative portrait of the middle-class black
community that had been ensconced on Beacon Hill since
Revolutionary times . . . New depth in the legacy of America's
struggle for equal rights." --Kirkus Reviews
"The authors handle the weighty issue of desegregation with skill;
this is a book for historians and humanitarians." --Publishers
Weekly
"Supremely gifted historians in every respect, Stephen Kendrick and
Paul Kendrick have given us an exceptionally full and compelling
account of the antebellum struggle for racial equality in the
nation's 'Birthplace of Liberty.'" --James Brewer Stewart, author
of Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
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