In White America

Jessica Keebler, director of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions in 1955, faces an almost insurmountable crisis. Theres a logjam of unadoptable babies and a severe lack of adequate foster homes for these children. The crux of this issues rests with a statute in Californias adoption law stating ... an interracial child is a non-white and may be given only to a Negro family.Since Negro family...