DEATH AT AN EARLY AGE: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. . Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). . Very good in very good dust jacket. . Kozol's influential first book, an account of a year spent as a permanent 'substitute teacher' in a 4th grade class; two weeks before the end of the year, he was fired when a white parent complained that he had the children reading a poem by Langston Hughes, which was not part of the 'official curriculum.'