Simkins addresses the process of school integration in Columbia, South Carolina, from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. Simkins describes how she participated in efforts to urge the school board to enforce desegregation and challenged their initial desire to only have "qualified" students integrate. She goes on to describes how she and others challenged the closing of Booker Washington High School and explains how issues of housing continued to inhibit the overall success of integration in the community.