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Common ground 1985

School integration, Race relations, Busing for school integration, National Book Award Winner

Describes events in the lives of three families during the 1968 Boston school integration crisis.

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“Sunlight struck the gnarled limbs outside his window, casting a thicket of light and shadow on the white clapboards.”

Both grave, earnest, classical in form.

Both earnest, grave, classical in form.

Both grave, earnest, classical in form.

Both earnest, grave, classical in form.

Both grave, earnest, classical in form.

Both grave, earnest, classical in form.

Both earnest, grave, classical in form.

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Film · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.