Title: How I shed my skin
Description: "In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children ... Now, over forty years later, Grimsley ... revisits that school and those times, remembering his personal reaction to his first real exposure to black children and to their culture, and his growing awareness of his own mostly unrecognized racist attitudes"--
Subjects: Whites, Segregation in education, Public schools, Education, African Americans, Childhood and youth, Biography, History, New York Times reviewed, African americans, education, Public schools, united states, African americans, biography, North carolina, biography, African americans, north carolina
Places: Pollocksville, North Carolina
People: Jim Grimsley (1955-)
Time periods: 20th century