Our Children Are Dying by Nat Hentoff [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1966 • Viking Compass

Our Children Are Dying by Nat Hentoff

FIRST EDITION TRADE PAPERBACK [1966] THE VIKING PRESS • COMPASS

Book is in very good condition with tanning to wraps.

Reads like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

This is the story of Dr. Elliott Shapiro, the tireless and controversial former principal of P.S. 119 in central Harlem (now P.S. 92 in its new building on the same street), and his crusade in education. The enrollment of P.S. 119 is ninety-six per cent Negro, the remainder being Puerto Rican and Chinese, Poverty, sickness, and dirt are the basic realities for many of the children. Prostitution, alcoholism, and drug addiction haunt the streets, Elliott Shapiro has challenged these "disadvantages" head on, His progress has been remarkable, both in terms of his own school and with regard to the implications his methods have for all urban schools. He still be lives our children are dying, but now he sees the possibility that some will survive. More can.