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Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he lost again. In 1848, Benjamin Roberts filed a lawsuit to desegregate the Boston school system so his five-year-old daughter, Sarah, could attend a good school close to home. As a child of color, she had to attend the ...
A Black printer and writer for Boston area newspapers, Benjamin Franklin Roberts fought for equal access to education for his children. Though slavery had been abolished in Massachusetts in the late 1700s, segregation still influenced every part of public life, including education.
On Feb. 15, 1848, Benjamin Roberts filed the first school desegregation suit after his daughter Sarah was barred from a public school based on her race in Boston. Artwork by E. B. Lewis from the picture book, The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial.
Benjamin Franklin Roberts (September 4, 1815 – September 6, 1881) was an African-American printer, writer, activist and abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts, whose famous case on behalf of his daughter, Sarah Roberts v. Boston, resulted in a verdict that laid the foundation for "separate but equal", but was also cited in the landmark 1954 ...
AS ONE OF BOSTON’S most militant “black” abolitionists, Benjamin Roberts surprised no one when he filed a desegregation lawsuit against the city school committee in 1848. This familiar and important story ultimately set formidable precedents in the struggle for racial equality and in the history of American law.
Benjamin Roberts is an historian, writer, and journalist based part of the year in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the other part on the island of Paros, Greece. His fascination for Dutch history and culture started when he was sixteen years old during his first visit to the Netherlands.
The stories here outline three examples of the legal battles in the long fight that eventually led to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roberts v. City of Boston. In the 1840s Benjamin Roberts of Boston began a legal campaign to enroll his five-year-old daughter, Sarah, in a nearby school for whites.
Roberts, Benjamin M., Stadnik, Yevgeny V., Flambaum, Victor V. and Dzuba, Vladimir A. (2015). Searching for axion dark matter in atoms: oscillating electric dipole moments and spin-precession effects. Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Zaragoza, Spain, 22-26 June 2015.
Parity-violating interactions of cosmic fields with atoms, molecules, and nuclei: Concepts and calculations for laboratory searches and extracting limits. BM Roberts, YV Stadnik, VA Dzuba, VV...
