A path-breaking study of teacher organizing, civil rights movement activism, and urban education, recounts how teachers’ and activists’ ideals shaped the school crisis and placed them at the epicenter of America’s racial conflict.

This series explores the history of schools and schooling in the United States and other countries. The series will examine the historical development of schools and educational processes, with special emphasis on issues of educational policy, curriculum and pedagogy, as well as issues relating to race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Special emphasis will be placed on the lessons to be learned from the past for contemporary educational reform and policy. Although the series will publish books related to education in the broadest societal and cultural context, it especially seeks books on the history of specific schools and on the lives of educational leaders and school founders.

provides an examination of education in New Orleans and its intersections with race, resiliency, resistance, and recovery.