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Reviewed on October 1, 2019 | Fiction
DEBUT In 1969, Colleen Rodrigues leaves New Jersey to teach in Louisiana while her husband, a Cuban immigrant and Vietnam veteran, takes a position on an army base. Colleen deals with racism toward her husband and a public school system that has found a loophole in the Brownvs. Board of Education decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The schools offer "Freedom of Choice," and as none of the black students willing...Log In or Sign Up to Read More