A new book, Water Tossing Boulders : How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South, documents the family’s struggle for educational equality. Instead, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the Lum family. My family is from the Mississippi Delta and I was there doing research ― I was interested in writing about my own family. You spoke to members of the Lum family. Had the court favored the Lum family, it would have been a dent in the hard wall of racism throughout the South.

Source: Huffington Post November 04, 2016 08:15 UTC