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History Forum
The Girls Who Desegregated America’s Schools
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345 W. Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55102
United States
Cost
- Individual event tickets: $15-20/MNHS members save 20%
- For series pricing (all 6 events): $78-105/MNHS members save 20%
- Free student rush tickets day-of with student ID, K-12 & college (as space allows)
About This Event
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.
Event Type:
- Lectures & Talks
Cost
- Individual event tickets: $15-20/MNHS members save 20%
- For series pricing (all 6 events): $78-105/MNHS members save 20%
- Free student rush tickets day-of with student ID, K-12 & college (as space allows)