Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children Binding:Hardcover EAN: 9781572842243

EAN: 9781572842243

and fleeting friendship that united four young lives

Claude Jones—a legendary grudge-holder

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry

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Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children Binding:Hardcover EAN: 9781572842243A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author's family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice "Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history." The Atlantic On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.