Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and how their Struggle for Equality changed America (edit title/settings)

by Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick (?) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Long years after becoming a renowned and wealthy advocate for his people, attorney Robert Morris still remembered that painful spring day in 1847.

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Dewey: 973

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Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › New England
Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Race Relations › America
Books › History › Americas › United States › African Americans › History
Books › History › Americas › United States › 19th Century › Antebellum
Books › Nonfiction › Education › Education Theory › History
Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies

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