Research Catalog
It wasn't Little Rock
- Title
- It wasn't Little Rock / Clarissa Sligh.
- Author
- Sligh, Clarissa T.
- Publication
- Rochester, N.Y. : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc F 10-392 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- Author describes her family's experience with racism and school integration. As a high school student, the author was named lead plaintiff in Clarissa Thompson et al. v. County School Board of Arlington County (June 1956), a school desegregation class action suit filed in U.S. District Court.
- Subjects
- United States > Race relations
- Artists' books
- African Americans > Education > Legal status, laws, etc
- School integration > Southern States > History
- Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > United States
- Civil rights > United States > Personal narratives
- Black author
- Sligh, Clarissa T
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc
- Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation > United States
- Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States
- Note
- Spiral bound.
- "This softcover edition of 150 books was printed on an Indigo Digital Press"--Colophon.
- Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) decision.
- Call Number
- Sc F 10-392
- ISBN
- 0898220912 (spiral bound)
- 9780898220919 (spiral bound)
- OCLC
- 63272555
- Author
- Sligh, Clarissa T.
- Title
- It wasn't Little Rock / Clarissa Sligh.
- Imprint
- Rochester, N.Y. : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2005.
- Local Note
- Library has author's authographed copy.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Visual Studies Workshop.United States. Supreme Court.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 10-392