Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton)

Some of my best friends are Black, the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby

eng

contains biographical information

no index present

non fiction

Some of my best friends are Black

759911206

Tanner Colby

the strange story of integration in America

Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church

Preface -- Letter from a Birmingham Suburb -- Bus Kid -- A Place Apart -- Oreo -- What Can Brown Do For You? -- Go Rebels? -- Planning for Permanence -- There goes the neighborhood -- "Have You Seen the Country Club District?" -- 49/63 or Fight -- Turf -- Desirable Associations -- Why Do Black People Drink Hawaiian Punch -- The Old Boys' Network -- Mad Black Men -- A Whole New Bag -- The Inescapable Network -- What's Black About It? -- Canaan -- The Race that Prays Together -- The Strange Career of Jesus Christ -- The Miracle of the Grand Coteau -- In the Wilderness -- Milk and Honey -- Author's note