RACE WAR IN HIGH SCHOOL: The Ten-Year Destruction of Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn

New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. First-hand account of the chaos and destruction that took place at a public high school in New York City during the 1960s and early '70s. Saltzman taught at Lane and served as UFT chapter chairman when violence by black students made physical safety, not education, the most pressing concern. Controversially, he proposed reducing substantially, in the name of racial balance, the number of black students which increased from 24.6% in 1960 to 66.6% in 1968. Octavo: 239 pp. Original gray cloth binding, with black-stamped titles. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with (truncated) some very light edgewear. (Inventory #: 78596)