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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. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools. In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools.

No municipality has been under court oversight to reform its police department as long as the city of Oakland. It is, quite simply, the edge case in American law enforcement. Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham trace the history of Oakland from its inception through the lens of its police department, from the Palmer Raids and the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Panthers and crack eras, to Oakland’s present-day revival. The Riders Come Out at Night is the story of one city and its police department, but it’s also the story of American policing—and where it’s headed.