“Devlin, a Rutgers University historian, spent ten years tracking down and interviewing dozens of women who endured harassment and abuse to desegregate schools, whether or not their lawsuits prevailed […] Finding these girls, now women in their 60s, 70s and 80s, required some sleuthing.…Devlin’s chronicle […] promises to reignite public conversation and debate about racial disparities in public education.”

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