Ordinary Sites: Student Resistance and the 1970s Texas School Desegregation Struggle

For nearly a century, legal battles over school desegregation have attracted significant attention. What desegregation meant for the day-to-day lives of Black precollegiate students, however, has remained marginal in this larger narrative. Focusing on the “ordinary” Southern town of Waco, Texas, Ordinary Sites uncovers how the lives of Waco’s Black students changed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

ArCasia D. James-Gallaway makes a compelling contribution to education hist...