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Authors: Kristen Green

FIRST EDITION

ISBN: 978-0-06-226867-9

EPub Edition June 2015 ISBN 9780062268693

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Table of Contents

Dedication
A Note to the Reader
Prologue
PART I: SEPARATE BUT NOT EQUAL

1. A Perfectly Charming Southern Town

2. Homecoming in Black and White

3. Prince Edward Joins Brown v. Board of Education

4. My Family’s Part

5. Locked Out

PART II: THE LOST GENERATION

6. The Segregation Academy

7. Waiting and Seeing

8. Nigger Lovers

9. “You Go Where Your Parents Tell You To”

10. Elsie’s Other Life

11. The Hour Is Late

12. A Bus Ticket and a World Away

13. Then and Now

14. Brown Stokes the Flames

15. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

16. Building a Life Without a Foundation

PART III: INTEGRATION

17. “We Are All God’s Children”

18. The Schools Today

19. “We All Wish It Hadn’t Happened”

20. A Healing Place for the Community

21. The New Normal

Epilogue
Photograph Section

Acknowledgments

Notes

Recommended Reading

Index

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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