Silver Rights

The true story of a family's fight for their educational future in "a sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation" (Los Angeles Times).

With an Introduction by New York Times–bestselling author Marian Wright Edelman

"The most important thing we can give our children is an education." —Mae Bertha Carter

In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping family with thirteen children, took public officials at their word when they were offered "Freedom of Choice" to send their children...