Jonathan Kozol

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During the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and 1965, Jonathan Kozol moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighborhood of Boston and became a fourth grade teacher in the Boston Public Schools. Since then, he has devoted four decades to issues of education and social justice in America. The Chicago Sun Times has called Kozol todays most eloquent spokesman for Americas disenfranchised. He has made a practice of leaving comfortable surroundings for challenging, impoverished areas, documenting what experiences in his several best selling and provocative books. Kozol began his career teaching fourth grade. He was fired for reading from a book of poetry by Langston Hughes that was not on the approved curriculum list. Soon after, he wrote his first work of nonfiction, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools, based on his teaching. The book won the National Book Award in Science, Philosophy, and Religion in 1968. Now regarded as a classic by educators, it has sold more than two million copies in the United States and Europe.

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