Kozol could not have chosen a more appropriate title for his book than the one he did. As he accounts his experiences teaching in the 1965 segregated schools of Boston, describing the dehumanizing physical and emotional abuse of little negro children, I shiver to think what life must have been like back then because of the color of ones skin. Despite the brown versus Board decision handed down by the courts in the early 1950's to desegregate segregated schools, nothing meaningful happened with these laws until the courts began monitoring and regulating their enforcement in later years.
As Kozol so vividly describes the harshness of abuse toward negro children in his book "Death at an Early Age", I can't seem to shake from my mind the images of Stephen, an eight years old negro boy, who is the subject of much abuse and mistreatment. "Stephen is tiny, desperate unwell. Sometimes he talks to himself…He cannot do any of his school work very well…Nobody has complained about the......

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