In a Sweet Magnolia Time

‘Segregation is per se inequality,’ wrote federal judge Waites Waring in 1951 in Brigg’s vs. Board of Education, a state_x0002_ment that both helped pave the way for school integration and made Waring a much-maligned figure among the white elite in his hometown of Charleston. His transformation from segregationist to in_x0002_tegrationist is told by a colleague who undergoes his own transformation after Waring’s funeral. —Kirkus Reviews