Nice White Parents - Ep. 2
20 August 2020 - 51 minsChana Joffe-Walt searches the New York City Board of Education archives for more information about the School for International Studies, which was originally called I.S. 293.
In the process, she finds a folder of letters written in 1963 by mostly white families in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. They are asking for the board to change the proposed construction of the school to a site where it would be more likely to be racially integrated.
It’s less than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, amid a growing civil rights movement, and the white parents writing letters are emphatic that they want an integrated school. They get their way and the school site changes — but after that, nothing else...
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Nice White Parents - Ep. 5
explicitAn unexpected last chapter. Some white parents start behaving differently.
52 mins
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Nice White Parents - Ep. 4
Is it possible to limit the power of white parents?
48 mins
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Nice White Parents - Ep. 3
We saw what happens when white families come into the school. What happens when they stay out?
45 mins
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Nice White Parents - Ep. 1
A group of parents take one big step together.
1 hour 1 min
20 August 2020 Finished
Introducing: Nice White Parents
We have a new show! Here’s a sneak peek of Nice White Parents, a new limited series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. Coming July 30 from Serial Productions, brought to you by The New York Times. Subscribe today.
6 mins
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