The Atlantic: The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement

“…I think the resilience that these young women had is hard to imagine. One would think that it would have been a crippling experience, but they sensed from a very early age the weight and enormity of what they were doing. They came to understand the notion of sacrifice for social justice. The stamina that it took to survive was fed and reinforced by the magnitude of what they were accomplishing.”

Elizabeth AzenMay 31, 2018Linda Brown, Brown v. Board of Education, Tessie Prevost-Williams, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, School Desegregation, Millicent Brown, Supreme Court, African American Girls, Anti-Segregation Movement, The Atlantic, Melinda D. Anderson

Rachel Devlin on NPR's 1A Podcast

Listen to A Girl Stands at the Door author Rachel Devlin on NPR’s 1A podcast. Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Magazine.

Elizabeth AzenMay 29, 2018Rachel Devlin, Marion Greenup, Leona Tate, Brown v. Board of Education, NPR, Smithsonian