The School is Not White!: A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Doreen Rappaport

Nov 2013 · StarWalk Kids Media

About this ebook

In Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, the schools were still segregated, with "all-black" schools lacking appropriate resources. The Carters, a family of sharecroppers, had had enough. They wanted their children to have an equal opportunity for a good education. So they sent their kids to the "all-white" schools. Teasing and death threats followed - it was not easy to be black and wage a fight for equality. This beautifully illustrated book tells a true story of faith, courage, and honor: qualities Americans of any color can learn from the Carters.

About the author

Doreen Rappaport is an award-winning author known to educators, parents, children and young adult readers for thirty-eight fiction and non-fiction books that celebrate multiculturalism, the retelling of folktales and myths, history, the lives of world leaders and the stories of those she calls ‘not-yet-celebrated.’Her books have received critical acclaim and awards for her unique ability to combine historical facts with intimate storytelling, and for finding “new ways to present the lives of well-known heroes‚” like Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller and the Statue of Liberty.A dynamic writer-teacher-storyteller in the classroom, she is a frequent speaker at state and national educational conferences, universities, libraries, historical societies, book fairs, and community centers. Doreen Rappaport has been a featured author at the National Portrait Gallery, National Book Festival, the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the White House.