Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children Binding:Hardcover This is literary journalism at

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Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children Binding:Hardcover This is literary journalism atA 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.