(the Shame of the Nation: Separate and Unequal by Nathan Glazer. The New York Times. September 25, 2005)

In the work entitled: "Kozol Discusses "Shame of a Nation" During Hauben Lecture" the author, Brian Whitson states: "The proportion of black students attending public segregated schools is at its highest since the death of civil rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. is the news related by Kozol to a "...sold out crowd at the Kimball Theatre." (Whitson, 2006) Whitson relates of Kozol's speech at the Kimball Theatre that: "Kozol, who became an educational activist more than 40 years ago when he was fired from an inner-city Boston school for reading to his students a poem by black author Langston Hughes, said he sees the same students as he travels to some of the poorest school divisions in the country. it's a case of social and economic segregation, he said. "I don't...
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