What Lessons Did You Learn In the 7 th Grade? Home-schooled in his whiteness, thirteen-year-old TJ Crowley thinks he knows everything about black people.
At thirteen, TJ thinks he knows all there is to know, until the doorbell rings one day and The Real Education of TJ Crowley truly begins.....
He\'s also worried about his dorky best friend, Eric, who wears tie-dye and let his hair grow past his collar like a dang hippie.
But he\'s worried about the 7 th Grade because, with forced integration, black students will be bused over the dividing line to join him.
Despite everything, TJ is excited about going to Brooks Junior High where he plans to be a sports star.
While his fearful mom drinks her worries away, TJ watches from the living room window as firebombs light the sky....
When the nightly curfew kicks-in, their doors are locked tight.
With his father away from home and his brother gone off to fight in Vietnam, TJ and his mom are all alone in their house on the hill just one street away from the racial dividing line.
For TJ Crowley, it\'s been a bummer of a summer.
But the Crowleys are a vengeful brood with ties to very evil men....
Not legally.
Nobody can prevent the Washingtons and their daughter from moving to the home of their dreams, even in an all-white neighborhood like the Crowley\'s.
In this landmark work of historical YA fiction, two American families with different pigmentation of skin land side-by-side after the new Fair Housing law makes it a crime to discriminate against people of color. sparked violent protests coast-to-coast, including Wichita, Kansas, a segregated city where, due to racial discrimination, blacks have been forced to live in one Zip Code until now....
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The slaying of Dr.
Even Walter Cronkite seems confused about what\'s going on.
The nation is divided and on edge over Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam.
It\'s the summer of 1968.
And lately, she\'s been flipping out all the time.
She flips out whenever she sees a black person.
Everything he knows about them and the ugly names he flings, he learned from his half-crazed mom.
Not that he\'s experienced anything about them firsthand.
What Lessons Did You Learn In the 7 th Grade? Home-schooled in his whiteness, thirteen-year-old TJ Crowley thinks he knows everything about black people
