A "masterful" (Taylor Branch) and "striking" (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the...
In September 1956, Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation following the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Rachel Martin weaves together over a dozen perspectives in a kaleidoscopic...