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

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

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 scho…

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