In Not the End, but the Beginning: The Impact of Race and Class on the History of Jordan High School, 1963-1988, Brian McDonald analyzes the impact of race and class on the high schoolÕs first twenty five years, tracing the impact of school desegregation and the county merger in 1970 with the changing student population over two decades. The story includes never before published accounts of the first students to desegregate the school, the changing student population after the 1960s, the schoolÕs racial transformation in the 1970s, and the growing socio-economic gap and the rising issue of class during the 1980s.