"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"--
- ISBN10 1616203765
- ISBN13 9781616203764
- Publish Date 14 April 2015
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 November 2022
- Imprint Algonquin Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English