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"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest....
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Strong - 1969 -- Complaints - 1970 -- Congress - 1970-1972 -- Implementation - 1972-1977 -- Sexual harassment - 1977-1980 -- Enforcement - 1975-1979 -- Backlash - 1980-1990 -- Christine, Jackie, Rebecca, Nicole, Alida, LaShonda - 1991-1999 -- Athletics - 1992-1999 -- Retaliation - 2000-2010 -- Sexual assault - 2000-2010 -- Acceleration - 2011-2014 -- Critical mass - 2015-2016 -- Backlash - 2017-2020 -- Fifty years -- The next fifty years.
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"A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board...
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"There was a time in the United States when children with disabilities weren't allowed to go to public school. But in 1971, seven kids and their families wanted to do something about it. They knew that every child had a right to an equal education, so they went to court to fight for that right. The case Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia led to laws ensuring children with disabilities would receive a free public education. Janine...
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" Make way for Malala Yousafzai! It's Malala like you've never seen her before!Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an activist and trailblazer. The third book in the exciting You Are a Star nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai focuses on Malala's lifelong mission to bring educational equality and justice to all - especially young girls.Maithili...
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