{"product_id":"book-gwgq","title":"A Most Tolerant Little Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history-about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of \u003cem\u003eBrown v. Board\u003c\/em\u003e-will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut not everyone wanted to talk. As one founder of the Tennessee White Youth told her, \"Honey, there was a lot of ugliness down at the school that year; best we just move on and forget it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, Martin wondered what it was some white residents of Clinton didn't want remembered. So she went back, eventually interviewing over sixty townsfolk-including nearly a dozen of the first students to desegregate Clinton High-to piece together what happened back in 1956: the death threats and beatings, picket lines and cross burnings, neighbors turned on neighbors, and preachers for the first time at a loss for words. The national guard rushed to town, along with national journalists like Edward Morrow and even evangelist Billy Graham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that wasn't the most explosive secret Martin learned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Martin weaves together over a dozen perspectives in a kaleidoscopic portrait of a small town living through a tumultuous turning point for America. The result is a spellbinding mystery, a riveting piece of forgotten civil rights history, and a poignant reminder of the toll on those who stand on the frontlines of social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may never before have heard of Clinton, Tennessee-but you won't be forgetting the town anytime soon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49346600632624,"sku":"BDgwgq","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49346600698160,"sku":"10gwgq","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gwgq-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773707554","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gwgq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}