Nice White Parents - Ep. 2

Chana 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 goes as planned.


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