She had to learn how to fit in, how to not say the wrong thing. One of those faces belongs to Shaffer, who was bused to a black high school in Cleveland, Ohio, after refusing to follow her friends to a white, private academy.įor three years, Shaffer was the only white person in the room. Only a handful of white faces appear among the portraits of African-American students – flecks of white on a canvas of black and brown. Flip open Amanda Shaffer’s high school yearbook, and you’ll notice something that stands out even more than her classmates’ earnest smiles and big hairdos.
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