Girls on the Front Line: Gender and the Battle to Desegregate Public Schools in the United States

Rachel Devlin, Associate Professor of History at Tulane will be speaking about her current research project: Girls on the Front Line: Gender and the Battle to Desegregate Public Schools in the United States. Her research examines the cultural politics of girlhood and race in the twentieth century by considering the disproportionate number of girls who were plaintiffs in desegregation lawsuits prior to Brown v. Board of Education, and who were desegregation “firsts” at white schools in the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties.

Please join Law Women tomorrow, March 30 at 12noon, in Room 110 for what promises to be an interesting presentation, followed by lunch on the MPR Patio.