Introduction 1. Roots of ChangeLucile Bluford's Long Crusade2. "This Lone Negro Girl"Ada Lois Sipuel, Desegregation Champion3. Girls on the Front LineGrassroots Challenges in the Late 1940s4. Laying the GroundworkEsther Brown and the Struggle in South Park, Kansas5. "Hearts and Minds"The Road to Brown v. Board of Education6. "Take Care of My Baby"The Isolation of the First "Firsts"7. "We Raised Our Hands and Said `Yes We Will Go'"Desegregating Schools in the Mid-1960sEpilogue Acknowledgments Archives and Collections Notes Index