CBH Talk: The Battle for School Integration in the North

Esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams has written the definitive history of this epic case in her new book The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North. Adams, who served on the Biden administration’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, offers a disturbing window into a widely overlooked turning point in American history. Her narrative of legal betrayal fundamentally changes our understanding of the history of civil rights in America and explains why issues like affirmative action remain political battlegrounds today. Adams discusses the history and its ongoing impact in a conversation led by Aaron Robertson, author of The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America.