A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation -- Rachel Louise Martin, Paperback Paul Overstreet ISBN: 9781524878023

ISBN: 9781524878023

Published: 07/15/2003

is broke and desperate for a second chance

where complexity reigns and the consequences of imprudence are severe

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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation -- Rachel Louise Martin, Paperback Paul Overstreet ISBN: 9781524878023A "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 town in the foothills of the Appalachians, where