Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections During the Civil Rights Era - Paperbackby Phyllis Palmer (Author) Using interviews with leaders and participants, as well as historical archives, the author documents three interracial sites where white Americans put themselves into unprecedented relationships with African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. In teen summer camps in the New York City and Los Angeles areas, students from largely segregated schools worked and played together; in Washington, DC, families fought