School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness

A chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education-one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance

Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as long-even through to today-Black students have been seen as a problem and a seemingly troubled population in America's public imagination.

Through over one h...