Bibliograph

Fight on!, Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration, Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin

Type

Label

Fight on!, Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration, Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fight on!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50941615

Responsibility statement

Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin

Sub title

Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration

Summary

Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants

Table Of Contents

Mary Church Terrell's family tree -- Who was Mary Church Terrell? -- A bowl of soup -- Bob Church's daughter -- "Hold high the banner of my race" -- "I am a colored girl" -- "The welfare of my race" -- Mr. Terrell "goes to Church" -- "Lifting as we climb" -- "I have done so little" -- A "meddler" -- "I intend never to grow old" -- "Your indomitable spirit" -- "Fight on" -- "Your long and valiant struggle" -- Afterword: "Those who will follow after you."

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification