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The hardest lesson : personal accounts of a school desegregation crisis /

Describes how the desegregation of the Boston schools in the 1970's affected the lives of selected individual students and several adults, chosen to represent a cross section of the community.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bullard, Pamela
Other Authors:	Stoia, Judith
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Little, Brown, [1980]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	School integration > Massachusetts > Boston > Juvenile literature. School integration > Massachusetts > Boston.

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