Irma McClaurin '69, Lucy Flower Vocational High School, West Side of Chicago
  (Photo credit: mcclaurin solutions)

In the summer of 1968, 140 students from inner city and rural America gathered at the Yale University Divinity School to participate in an educational experiment. White, Black, Puerto Rican, Indian American, and Asian American students, labeled by New Haven newspapers as "underachievers," were introduced to a "Great American Books" curriculum that included The American Constitution...
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