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In Relentless Pursuit of an Education, co-edited by Donald Barber, Steve Hawkins, Alma Jordon, Bob Lewis, Anna Moseley, Merideth Taylor, and Janice Talbert Walthour, 2006, is available through this web page or at local book stores and libraries. The book features stories told by those who lived through school segregation, photographs from the time period and an introduction by James Loewen. Read the Introduction

117 pages, soft cover, indexed
over 200 photographs
8  1/2 inches by 11 inches

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Back Cover - Table of Contents
Preface - Introduction - Index

Children coming out of Scotland School at noon. September 1940. Photo by John Vachon, Farm Security Administration, Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

"In Relentless Pursuit of an Education is local history at its best. In their own words, residents of St. Mary's County, Maryland, tell of the separate and unequal black schools that existed until the county finally complied with Brown v. Board of Education in 1967. This generation displays no nostalgia for segregation, but they do recall how their daily life was marked not only by inequality, but also by determination, caring, even fun. One hundred years from now, their voices will be a priceless resource for historians yearning to understand, "What was it like? What was it really like?"
           James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns