{"id":854,"date":"2022-09-30T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/?post_type=product&p=854"},"modified":"2024-02-07T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:28:41","slug":"ahead-of-our-time-reflections-on-diversity-jefferson-high-school-daly-city-ca-1968-1972","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/?product=ahead-of-our-time-reflections-on-diversity-jefferson-high-school-daly-city-ca-1968-1972","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Our Time: Reflections on Diversity\u2014Jefferson High School, Daly City, CA, 1968\u20131972"},"content":{"rendered":"
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282 pages
ISBN:<\/strong> 978-1-936411-81-8
Price:<\/strong> $25.95<\/p>\n

In September, 1968, during the turbulent era of school bussing, protests, assassinations, and race riots, Carol Badran entered Jefferson High School in the working-class suburb of Daly City, California. Many students arrived at \u201cJeff\u201d with trepidation because \u201ceveryone knew it was a rough school.\u201d In other words, it was racially and ethnically mixed. Jeff proved to be the opposite of rough\u2014a place where people chose their friends based on personality and fights were about plain old teenage hormones like at any high school. Race or ethnicity was no barrier to becoming class president or homecoming queen.<\/div>\n

Carol looked beyond the nostalgia of the high school yearbook, asking forty former classmates and teachers to reflect on how their \u201crough\u201d school\u2014more known for its laid-back culture than its academic standards\u2014worked so well for its school community in a time when the United States was 88% White and racial conflict was rife.<\/div>\n
 
Ahead of Our Time <\/i>is a celebration of American diversity and a testament to the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., where people judge one another by the content of their character, and nothing more.

Jeff allowed me to be me. No one ever told me I couldn\u2019t do certain things.
Fern, Class of \u201972<\/div>\n

Jefferson . . . made me unafraid of going out in the world and being around people who didn\u2019t look or sound like me.
Michele, Class of \u201972<\/div>\n

I was lucky enough to know many cultures\u2014my friends, their parents, their food, lifestyles, etc. We\u2019re still all the same, despite these differences.  
Jerry, Class of \u201972<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

282 pagesISBN: 978-1-936411-81-8Price: $25.95 In September, 1968, during the turbulent era of school bussing, protests, assassinations, and race riots, Carol Badran entered Jefferson High School in the working-class suburb of Daly City, California. Many students arrived at \u201cJeff\u201d with trepidation because \u201ceveryone knew it was a rough school.\u201d In other words, it was racially and …<\/p>\n

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