What Did You Learn In School Today? Exhibition Catalogue (2011)
Front and back covers of the What Did You Learn in School Today? Exhibition Catalogue, 2024
Excerpt from the Prologue:
“What causes us to think what we think?
One major influence is what we learned in school. I attended Little Rock, Arkansas public schools, grades one through twelve, from 1958 to 1970, graduating from Meadowcliff Elementary, Southwest Junior High School, and Hall High School. These were unsettled years in Little Rock, coming on the heels of the Central High School crisis and during the national movement for civil rights. Issues of race were a constant part of life, not only of course for Little Rock’s African-American community, but also for a middle-class white boy like me from southwest Little Rock. For Little Rock’s white community there was no middle ground: you were either an integrationist or a segregationist. My family were integrationists.”