Some of my best friends are Black

the strange story of integration in America
Tanner Colby
Book - 2012

Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colby, Tanner
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
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