Death at an Early Age
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A book by Jonathan Kozol
, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools was first published in 1967. It won the National Book Award
for Science, Philosophy, and Religion for 1968. The book describes Kozol's first year of teaching, which took place in the Boston public school system. Kozol recounts the deeply entrenched policies of racial segregation and inequality on the part of Boston Public Schools, testifies to a crumbling infrastructure in his Roxbury neighborhood, and documents the public outcry following his dismissal for the offense of teaching a Langston Hughes poem to his reading class. Reissue ISBN 0-452-26292-5
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...
, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools was first published in 1967. It won the National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
for Science, Philosophy, and Religion for 1968. The book describes Kozol's first year of teaching, which took place in the Boston public school system. Kozol recounts the deeply entrenched policies of racial segregation and inequality on the part of Boston Public Schools, testifies to a crumbling infrastructure in his Roxbury neighborhood, and documents the public outcry following his dismissal for the offense of teaching a Langston Hughes poem to his reading class. Reissue ISBN 0-452-26292-5