Frye Gaillard, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama is the author of nineteen books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America - winner of the 2005 Lillian Smith Book Award. Gaillard writes for Parade, the Oxford American, Saturday Review, and the Washington Post.
Gaillard deftly tracks the recent changes in the school system....
He works to be fair to all sides.-- "Charlotte Observer"
Gaillard offers thorough research, perceptiveness, balance, and an
engaging style that leaves room for one's own conclusions.... A
compelling account.-- "New York Times Book Review"
In the early 1970s the Charlotte, N.C., school system was the
national test case for busing as a means of achieving racial
desegregation. Gaillard, a Charlotte Observer editor who covered
the issue as a reporter, emphasizes here that 'whatever the
experience of other cities, busing was not a tragedy in Charlotte.'
This interesting and well-written study focuses on those who fought
to make busing work--parents and school principals, activists and
reformers, lawyers and judges, journalists and ministers, average
people who struggled to put doctrine ahead of
self-interest.--Publishers Weekly
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