“Economically and educationally, the Rosenbergs were on par with and surpassed many of the affluent White families in he Beaver subdivision, but they are not fully integrated socially, despite the fact that their son played in the same bands, attended the same camps, and played on the same sports teams as the children of white Beaver residents” (Lewis-McCoy, 2014, p. 92).
“As efforts to address the allegations against her increased, conspicuously absent from the signers of the petition were non-affluent and non-white parents. In my interviews with residents of the Mulberry Houses and other African-American families at Cherry Elementary, none of them revealed any knowledge of the situation with Ms. Baker or the petition. The flow of information between parents of different races and class backgrounds, despite engagement with the school, appeared never to have reached parents outside of the wealthy white Beaver subdivision and select families attached to the geography-based social network” (McCoy, R. 2014, p. 92).