Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America?

In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler tells the story of a decades-long pursuit in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and uncovers the roadblocks that have threatened progress time and again-in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community.

In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights began groundbreak...