While researching my own novel, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG, at Delta State University's Chinese Heritage collection, I heard a lot about this story.
This new book is just out today!
Here's a bit from the publisher's description:
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 Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge the constitutionality of racial segregation in Southern public schools, an astonishing thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
The Kirkus review is HERE.
An AMAZON link is HERE.
It's a really fascinating story that happened in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
Thanks for sharing. Sounds great!
ReplyDeleteFascinating story. Though the book is a grownup one! (I read so many middle-grade and YA novels, I thought I'd better clarify!)
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