Race War in High School: The Ten-year Destruction of Franklin K. Lane High school in Brooklyn

Amazon review:The author, a teacher at Lane through the 60's, chronicles the events that led to decent people vacating the neighborhood, rioting, looting, assaults on teachers including setting one on fire after shooting flammable fluids on him, that otherwise put one more coffin into East New York. Surprisingly enough, a coalition of 'social activists' 'black panthers', a 'corrupt mayoralty' and a zoning irregularity resulted in the destruction of a school that was already desegregated proir to Court decisions mandating busing and desegregation. Author Saltzman is also honest as he too, at the time anyway, supported integration if same was done properly. Therefore I believe his book deserves extra credence.