We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation.

• Date: 01 March 2021
• Author: Siara, Lyndsey E.

Concluding that separate is never equal, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision gave no guidance on how to integrate schools. Two decades of slow progress followed. Published in 2018, We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation, offers a detailed, holistic account of school desegregation between 1965-1973, the crucial inflection point in Southern public education. Underscoring the community benefit to strong public schools, attorney turned author Michael T. Gengler recounts Alachua County's challenges in working toward full integration.

Dense for the average reader, the book brings greater insight into the logistical, administrative, and personal struggles to achieve school desegregation. Directing profits to...