Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
By Unknown Author.
Description
John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of "The Manhattan Project." This was the name he and a group of fellow students gave their strike at R.R. Moton High School that helped to end separate schooling for blacks and whites, not only in his home state of Virginia, but throughout America. Told in Stokes’ own words, the story vividly conveys how his passion for learning helped set in motion one of the most powerful movements in American history, resulting in the desegregation of schoolsand lifein the United States. As a child tending crops on...
ISBN(s)
1426301537, 9781426301537
