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Book Looks at Integration's Impact on White South

Resistance to integration is well documented. But many whites in the South had a nuanced reaction to a changing landscape. Historian Jason Sokol chronicles their lives in There Goes My Everything. He talks with Debbie Elliott about the book.

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