A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

by Rachel Louise Martin

Book Overview

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 wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America.

In graduate school, Rachel Martin was sent to a small...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166590514X
• ISBN13: 9781665905145
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"