The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School(The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

The second book in W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Flame trilogy, Mansart Builds a School, opens with Mansart's election to superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta and follows him as he ascends to the position of president of Georgia State A&M College. The book provides a damning portrait of the state of education for African Americans in the south.