Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me : a Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 1426301537
- ISBN-13
- 9781426301537
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 127
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Authors
- Herman J. Viola, John A. Stokes, Lois Wolfe
Description
Presents an eyewitness account of the 1951 "Manhattan Project," a strike at R.R. Moton High School in Virginia which led to the historic civil right case "Brown v. Board of Education" and ended separate schooling for blacks and whites throughout the United States.
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