Payne's
book is brilliant and should be
read by all education policymakers, but today, in honor of Martin Luther King, I want to call attention to the Epilogue (as I have done before), where Payne tells the story of William J. Moore, «grandson of a fugitive slave,» who opened a «first class elementary school» in West Cape May, New Jersey, for the black «yard men, delivery «boys», dockhands, truck
drivers, casual laborers, and factory workers» who serviced the white tourists of Cape May.