How I shed my skin: unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood

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"In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children ... Now, over forty years later, Grimsley ... revisits that school and those times, remembering his personal reaction to his first real exposure to black children and to their culture, and his growing awareness of his own mostly unrecognized racist attitudes"--
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African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- Biography
Grimsley, Jim, -- 1955- -- Childhood and youth
Public schools -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century
Segregation in education -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century
Whites -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- Biography
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Segregation in education
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