“Topeka argued that the district provided free busing, but they didn’t say those poor children got to class too tired to learn.” A quote about the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education from the historical novel Tazia and Gemma. After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, an unwed immigrant and her young daughter flee west in search of freedom and encounter racism in Kansas in the early 1900s. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
