Exploring discriminatory practices in Montgomery, Alabama during the New Deal-era, including the draining of the Oak Park Pool as a response to integration and the influence of racism on white voters' government support.
Racism, says Heather McGhee in her award-winning book "The Sum of Us," is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy, and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?