Author and education activist Jonathan Kozol gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 2007

Editor’s note: I have been working with Fountain Street Church and looking at a substantial amount of archival materials they have. Today’s post is only possible because Fountain Street Church has provided me access to their archives and they want this information to be public and available to the community. I will be hosting the archival material on the Grand Rapids People’s History Project site, but also posting here on GRIID. This is the second in a series of postings from the archival material at Fountain Street Church.

So far I have posted talks by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, James Meredith, Dick Gregory, Amy Goodman, bell hooks and Jane Fonda, all of whom spoke at Fountain Street Church.

Today, I want to share a lecture that author and education activist Jonathan Kozol gave a talk at Fountain Street Church in 2007. Kozol is the author of such books as Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America, On Being a Teacher, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation.

Here is the lecture by Kozol in Part I, followed by the Q & A portion in Part II in audio form, plus a video version below.