J. Anthony Lukas

J. Anthony Lukas

Jay Anthony Lukas, or J. Anthony Lucas (April 25, 1933–June 5, 1997), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one African-American.

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