When Martin Luther King Jr. argued on behalf of civil rights he was told that he was "too soon." Today, those demanding reparations for slavery are told they ar

New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Week

Includes several previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks's original transparencies.

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow—two societies fundamentally pre

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments gener