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TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). "White Racism and Black Education." Jonathan Kozol, schoolteacher and author of the award-winning Death at an Early Age, leads a discussion on the effects of white prejudice on Negro education, specifically in the public school system of his native Boston...
...then announced that he was giving his $1,000 prize to an antidraft group, and chided the assembled publishers for paying their taxes. He even found an ally of sorts in Jonathan Kozol, the 31-year-old former Boston schoolteacher, author of the winner in science, philosophy and religion, Death at an Early Age. Kozol said that he was giving his $1,000 to the ghetto workers of Boston. That left the others with nothing to do but accept their various prizes: George F. Kennan for his Memoirs: 1925-1950, Edna and Howard Hong for their translation of Kierkegaard...
...Kozol blamed the "mediocrity" of the Boston schools on "principals who are afraid of the parents in their communities...
...Kozol and a group of Roxbury parents founded an integrated private school for 70 students in 1966. "The New School represents the very best of what is called 'Black Power,'" he said, citing community involvement in the project...
...Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age, which he calls "a hot and angry" appraisal of the Boston public school system...