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Book SynopsisA ';masterful' (Taylor Branch) and ';striking' (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights historyabout the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Boardwill forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America.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.
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.'
For years, Martin wondered what it was some white residents of Clinton didn't want remembered. So, sh
