This story is the first in an ongoing series about the last days of desegregation. This story also appeared in The Nation GREENVILLE, Miss. — They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Authors of the landmark civil rights-era Coleman Report, […]
LynNell Hancock
LynNell Hancock is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism, and the director of the Spencer Fellowship Program, at the Columbia Journalism School.
