Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger
School Segregation in Rochester, New York
by Justin Murphy
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Pub Date Mar 15 2022 | Archive Date Jul 01 2022
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Description
In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy makes the compelling argument that the educational disparities in Rochester, New York, are the result of historical and present-day racial segregation. Education reform alone will never be the full solution; to resolve racial inequity, cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.
Drawing on never-before-seen archival documents as well as scores of new interviews, Murphy shows how discriminatory public policy and personal prejudice combined to create the racially segregated education system that exists in the Rochester area today. Alongside this dismal history, Murphy recounts the courageous fight for integration and equality, from the advocacy of Frederick Douglass in the 1850s to a countywide student coalition inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in the 2010s.
This grinding antagonism, featuring numerous failed efforts to uphold the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, underlines that desegregation and integration offer the greatest opportunity to improve educational and economic outcomes for children of color in the United States. To date, that opportunity has been lost in Rochester, and persistent poor academic outcomes have been one terrible result.
Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger is a history of Rochester with clear relevance for today. The struggle for equity in Rochester, like in many northern cities, shows how the burden of history lies on the present. A better future for these cities requires grappling with their troubled pasts. Murphy's account is a necessary contribution to twenty-first-century Rochester.
Advance Praise
"Everyone should read Justin Murphy's Your Children are Very Greatly in Danger. The book should be read far and wide because it provides a better understanding of the historical realities that have brought us to where we are today. The issues addressed here are American issues and not confined to Rochester."-Joan Coles Howard, former editor of The Frederick Douglass Voice
"Justin Murphy adeptly analyzes school segregation in the City of Rochester by carefully blending sources from the era of the Great Migration up to the 21st century. Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger is a resource to local educators, community members, and students seeking to understand and improve Rochester schools."-Ansley T. Erickson, author of Making the Unequal Metropolis
"Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger traces patterns of racial inequality from the early nineteenth century through the Civil Rights era to the present. Justin Murphy demonstrates why schools in Rochester are failing Black and Brown children; his historical analysis is key to understanding educational inequity today."-Christine L. Ridarsky, Rochester City Historian
"In our dangerously polarized society, a viable future depends on educating all children fairly, preparing them to live and work together in a society without a racial majority. Justin Murphy's carefully documented, quietly passionate book about generations of segregation and failure in Rochester's deeply unequal schools calls us start now on building a real path toward integration."-Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781501761867 |
| PRICE | $32.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 312 |
