How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
by
Adrienne Berard
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told.
On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister...