This new book on Black public schooling in St. Louis is the first to
fully explore deep racialized antagonisms in St. Louis, Missouri. It
accomplishes this by addressing the white supremacist context and
anti-Black policies that resulted. In addition, this work attends
directly to community agitation and protest against racist school
policies. The book begins with post-Civil War schooling of Black
children to the important Liddell case that declared unconstitutional
the St. Louis Public Schools. The judicial wrangling in the Liddell
case, its aftermath, and community reaction against it awaits a next
book by the authors of Anti-blackness and public schools.