Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

Winner of the Ohio Book Award
Finalist of the Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism

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,...