The history of school desegregation in America has long been centered around the southern United States. But in her new book, "In Pursuit of Knowledge," University of New Hampshire Professor Dr. Kabria Baumgartner explores an earlier story from much closer to home. She joined All Things Considered host Peter Biello. Note: The following transcript is lightly edited for clarity What happened in the Northeast that warrants more attention, in your view? Well, I think there were quite a few episodes of violence where African American schools were attacked. So I had come across an illustration from the late 1830s that described three incidents of violence against African American schools and I wanted to investigate those incidents of violence, and I wanted to figure out, well why are African American schools attacked? And the process of researching those four incidents then prompted me to look more closely at African American girls and women and their educational experiences. The book starts
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