05473cam a2201045 4500 1234732482 TxAuBib 20240418120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982186869 1982186860 B0BHTMM4VF Amazon f8237cdd-a9e9-4a3c-87ec-32b6c6780693 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9310956 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Martin, Rachel Louise. A Most Tolerant Little Town [Libby] : The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation in America. Simon & Schuster, 2023. Juneteenth. Knoxville. Affirmative Action. school desegregation. racial segregation. racism. racial tension. liberation. desegregation. Racial Equality. South. Black history. racial discrimination. oppression. Civil Rights. Jim Crow. Slavery. white supremacy. race. Race relations. emancipation. Civil Rights movement. racial prejudice. Social Justice. Tennessee. southern history. Black History Month. black studies. People of Color. race against time. civil rights era. racial violence. #blacklivesmatter. US south. blm. institutional racism. oak ridge. microaggression. systemic racism. racial bias. american prejudice. WHITE FRAGILITY. BIPOC. brown v board. clinton tennessee. blood of emmett till. books like us. brown vs board. clinton 12. court ordered. deepest south of all. inclusion and acceptance. macroaggression. white supremacist violence. books about black communities. books about black families. books about black lives. afam. intersectionality and identity. stigma social change. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5096kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>A "masterful" (Taylor Branch) and "striking" (</b><b><i>The New Yorker</i></b><b>)</b> <b>portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history—about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of <i>Brown v. Board</i>—will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America.</b><br /> In graduate school, Rachel Martin was sent to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to attempt court mandated desegregation.<br /> <br /> But not everyone wanted to talk. As one founder of the Tennessee White Youth told her, "Honey, there was a lot of ugliness down at the school that year; best we just move on and forget it."<br /> <br /> For years, Martin wondered what it was some white residents of Clinton didn't want remembered. So, she went back, eventually interviewing over sixty townsfolk—including nearly a dozen of the first students to desegregate Clinton High—to piece together what happened back in 1956: the death threats and beatings, picket lines and cross burnings, neighbors turned on neighbors and preachers for the first time at a loss for words. The National Guard rushed to town, along with national journalists like Edward R. Morrow and even evangelist Billy Graham. But that wasn't the most explosive secret Martin learned...<br /> <br /> In <i>A Most Tolerant Little Town</i>, Rachel Martin weaves together over a dozen perspectives in an intimate, kaleidoscopic portrait of a small town living through a turbulent turning point for America. The result is at once a "gripping" (<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i>) mystery and a moving piece of forgotten civil rights history, rendered "with precision, lucidity and, most of all, a heart inured to false hope" (<i>The New York Times</i>).<br /> <br /> You may never before have heard of Clinton, Tennessee—but you won't be forgetting the town anytime soon. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-04-18 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f8237cdd-a9e9-4a3c-87ec-32b6c6780693&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f8237cdd-a9e9-4a3c-87ec-32b6c6780693&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f8237cdd-a9e9-4a3c-87ec-32b6c6780693&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)