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First published 2017 by Cornell University Press
Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shearer, Tobin Miller, author.

Title: Two weeks every summer: fresh air children and the problem of race in America / Tobin Miller Shearer.

Other titles: American institutions and society.

Description: Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2017. | Series: American institutions and society | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016047308 (print) | LCCN 2016049195 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501707452 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501708459 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501708466 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Fresh-air charity—United States. | African American children—Social conditions. | Race relations—United States.

Classification: LCC HV934 .S54 2017 (print) | LCC HV934 (ebook) | DDC 362.71—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047308

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Cover: Unidentified Fresh Air participants from the Henry Street Settlement House in New York City on a bus headed to the country, 1965. Used by permission of Henry Street Settlement House, New York, NY (top); Host mother greeting guest to Linville, Virginia, 1978. Used by permission of the Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA (bottom).