Bridging the Gap: Author Alexandra Freudus Discusses Education, Racism, and Reform

Bridging the Gap: Author Alexandra Freudus Discusses Education, Racism, and Reform

Your book, Unequal Lessons, begins with a quote from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1935 essay “Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?” It reads, in part: “Other things being equal, the mixed school is the broader, more natural basis for the education of all youth. It gives wider contacts; it inspires greater self-confidence; and suppresses the inferiority complex. But other things are seldom equal.” We’ve been talking about the need to integrate schools for a…