{"product_id":"9780615452180","title":"Black and White: A Song That Is a Story about Freedom to Go to School Together","description":"\"As an adolescent, I sang along with Three Dog Night, never really thinking about the words of the song. Until now. BLACK AND WHITE, like many little books, is enormous.\" \u003cb\u003e- ANN HOOD\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of THE KNITTING CIRCLE and other novels\u003cp\u003e... \"A simple, lovely, powerful book.\" \u003cb\u003e- TOM CHAPIN\u003c\/b\u003e, singer\/songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyricist, graphic artist and teacher David Arkin (1906-1980) created the book BLACK AND WHITE in 1966. Arkin based his book on the song of the same name crafted years before by he and composer Earl Robinson (1910-1991) - a song meant to celebrate the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down segregation in public schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded by Pete Seeger in 1956 and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957, \"Black and White\" was much later, in 1971, a #6 hit for the Reggae group Greyhound in the UK and (1972) a #1 hit for the band Three Dog Night in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePete Seeger - a longtime friend of both Arkin and Robinson, a multi-Grammy winning performer and composer, and a Kennedy Center Honoree - has written an Introduction for this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Street Communications, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50061957988592,"sku":"9780615452180","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615452180_p0.jpg?v=1784730431","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615452180","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}