Liva Baker
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On the surface, this is a book about law and politics in New Orleans, one of America's most fascinating cities. But primarily, it's a book about courage and the lack of it during a century of sometimes violent disputes over New Orleans's schools, climaxing in the desegregation crisis of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
It's about the courage of the outspoken 19th-century black Creole newspaper editor Paul Trevigne, who ignored threats on his life...