Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools

A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco

The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is remarkably wide ranging. Class Action tells the story of San Francisco’s long struggle over school desegregation in the wake of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.

San Francisco’s story provides a critical chapter in the hi...