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Author Silverstein, Clara, 1960-

Title White girl [electronic resource] : a story of school desegregation / by Clara Silverstein.

Imprint Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 149 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.
Contents A school bus, a mother's tears -- Joined hands -- My father's last moments -- Ann and Lee, Mom and Dad -- Packing it in -- You talk like a Yankee -- Tomboys -- Freedom of choice - yes! busing - never! -- "Model" schools -- Interim integration -- Busing hits home -- Manners -- Jim Crow's legacy -- Liberal teacher, Southern lady -- The buses roll -- No one wants you here -- Black is beautiful -- Self-segregation -- Separate soundtracks -- In the classrooms -- My flag, my shame -- Girl talk -- Ebony and ivory -- The white boys -- Filmstrip in the dark -- The fox-trot, the cha-cha -- Invisible -- Voice of loneliness -- The liberals -- Legacy of defeat -- No yearbooks, no good-byes -- Singing "Dixie" -- The open high school -- I surrender! -- Belonging and not belonging -- Driving lessons -- Preppie envy -- A shell tossed into the ocean -- The education mom -- Racial differences still evident -- Was this a good school? -- My father's words -- I am Lee's daughter -- Splinters of glass.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Silverstein, Clara, 1960- -- Childhood and youth.
Children, White -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Biography.
Middle school students -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Biography.
Girls -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Biography.
Whites -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Biography.
School integration -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 20th century.
Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations.
Richmond (Va.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0820326623 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820326627
9780820345888 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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