Two Weeks Every Summer : : Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America / / Tobin Miller Shearer.
Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hos...
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