Whatever it Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
- ISBN-10
- 0547247966
- ISBN-13
- 9780547247960
- Series
- Whatever It Takes
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Paul Tough
Description
An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time. Reprint.
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