“The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations,” vividly describes the current ongoing crisis of America’s mis-education and inability to properly educate its African American students..Many of the details and cited statistics indicates alarming illiteracy rates and high drop-out rates for disadvantaged Black and Latino students across the country..These rates stand in sharp contrast to those of their White peers, and the Black/White academic achievement gap continues to widen..The author mentions other problems afflicting the Black community, including the horrendous incarceration rates among young Black males, the shocking rates of Black abortions, and the “precarious and implosive” condition of the Black family in America..
He highlights a proven and scientifically tested dialect reading program which showed promising results for Black, functionally illiterate, inner-city students in grades 7-12..The author contends that the core of these problems which have dire consequences for the Black community, lay with America’s failure to properly educate its Black student populations..He goes on to connect these problems plaguing the Black community to society as a whole, in order to show that these alarming figures are more than just statistics, they have widespread consequences upon American society..He urges that a ” Second Civil Rights Movement” is needed to gain equal educational opportunity for all of America’s children..We cannot deny these  rights to some of  our children without disparaging all children and the nation..The book can be purchased, or previewed on Amazon.com, in July, 2012..