The Fresh Air Fund's complicated racial record
- Written by Tobin Miller Shearer, Director of the African-American Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, The University of Montana
Fresh Air host Mark Stucky of Newton, Kansas shook hands with Thomas Flowers from Gulfport, Mississippi, as Doris Zerger Stucky – Mark’s mother – watched in this 1960 photo.Mennonite Library & Archives, Bethel, KansasNew York City’s Fresh Air Fund has sent city kids, most of them low-income, to suburban and rural...