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In 1967, at the height of
the civil rights movement, a young, white teacher in the poor, black
section of Boston, MA, was fired for reading a Langston Hughes poem to his
fourth grade students. That teacher was Jonathan Kozol. A summa cum laude
graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar, Kozol has spurred the national
conscience for over three decades.
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Death at an Early Age
(1968), a description of his first year as a teacher, received the
National Book Award in Science, Philosophy, and Religion, and is now
regarded as a classic by educators.
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
(1985) received the 1989 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Conscience
in Media Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
(1991) received the New England Book Award in nonfiction. National
bestseller Amazing Grace: the Lives of Children and the Conscience of
a Nation (1995) received the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
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Ordinary Resurrections
(2000) looks at life through the eyes of children, not as the author
puts it, from the perspective of “a grown-up man encumbered with a
Harvard education.”
Mr. Kozol plans to be
available for book signing after the lecture.
Sponsored by
Oklahoma City University
Free and Open to the Public
For more information, call (405) 523-4956 or visit www.okcu.edu.
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