Description: Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago's implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.
Review Quotes: "A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings."-- "Ethic and Racial Studies"