Years ago, Christian Brothers High School broke ranks with Southern culture and tradition to open its doors to a black student. This new venture in Memphis, Tennessee, of “education by association” would later tear the city’s public schools apart. For the city’s public schools today, the hurt has not yet been fully healed. For Christian Brothers education, new challenges lie in wait.
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The entrance of the first African-American into an all-white high school in Memphis on August 16, 1963, is detailed in this memoir. It is written by the man who navigated that entrance at Christian Brothers High School, Brother Terence McLaughlin, FSC. … Brother Terence takes the pulse, so to speak, of our country and Memphis and its environs regarding race relations. And in that context, he opens to the reader the events that started the racial integration of the high schools in Memphis.
– Brother Joel William McGraw, FSC, Assistant Principal, Christian Brothers High School
Published: 2013 (Reprinted by the Lasallian Resource Center in 2025)
Authors: Br. Terence McLaughlin, FSC
96 Pages
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