Water Tossing Boulders : How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South (Hardcover)

from bookcaterpillar

This is a small book and can be read in one day, but there's so much story in so few pages. Couldn't put this down. Extremely important U.S. historical period, but a family I had never heard about. Highly recommend for the unique historical perspective as well as the captivating writing.

from exploreacademy

This book presented multiple individual stories of this involved in the fight to desegregate schools in the Jim Crow South. What I really enjoyed was that the stories of individual people and families were developed enough that you got to know the characters and their determination to change the ...

from

A fascinating topic relevant to today's society. In the field of education, the test cases for segregation of schools had fallen on the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. I was unaware of the struggles of the Lum family in trying to prevail on Southern politici...

from datrappert

Beard takes the few facts available about a landmark legal case from 1920s Mississippi when the parents of a 9-year old Chinese girl, who had been attending a white school for several years, was told she was no longer welcome by a new school superintendent. Because there really isn't much documen...

from marilynsantiago

A very hard book to read.....but so timely with the current fear and resistance towards immigrants who don't fit mainstream white ideals of who should be let into our country. Not much different from all those Exclusion Policies that excluded certain groups of people. - the story is actually abou...