Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award
Winner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar''s Book Award
Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society
Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education
The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story-s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women.
In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles-from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm-
