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Sarah's Long Walk: The Struggle that Changed America
February 10, 2005
Stephen Kendrick minister, First and Second Church, Boston

Stephen Kendrick, author of Sarah's Long Walk and minister of First and Second Church, Boston, discusses the history behind the famous case of Sarah Roberts. In 1848, 5-year-old Sarah Roberts had to pass five white-only schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School. Incensed at this injustice, her father Benjamin Roberts took action. He resolved to sue the city of Boston on her behalf, and began a hundred-year struggle that culminated in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education.

Education | History | Literature & Philosophy
Brown V. Board of Education | Human Rights | Roberts Case | Segregation | Social Class | Non-Fiction | Race
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