Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. A Book Talk with Author Laura Meckler, in conversation with Paul Mason Online
Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler (Shaker Heights Class of 1986) returns to her hometown to discuss her new book, based on years of research and hundreds of interviews, on the long-term relationship between Shaker Heights and race and the community's decades-long quest for racial equity in housing and education. Laura will be joined in conversation by friend and fellow journalist Paul Mason (Shaker Heights Class of 1973), son of Ludlow Community Association pioneers Beverly and Ted Mason, the first Black family to move into the Shaker school district.
The event will be held both online and in person in the Shaker Heights Public Library. Please select your preferred registration type.
Cosponsored by the Ludlow Community Association and the Shaker Historical Society.
Books will be available for sale and signing at the event, courtesy of Loganberry Books.
“This is the complicated story of racial integration in Shaker Heights as it has never been told, deeply reported by one of its own. Laura Meckler brings a former resident’s open heart and a journalist’s laser focus to dreams realized and those too often deferred. As a journalist, I marvel at the depth of her reporting. As a former Shaker mom, I am grateful for the mirror that forces us to see the work that remains.”
—Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Daughters of Erietown
To view the complete book description, visit the publisher's website.