new london (tex.)

Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.

Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in Texas in 1937, tells the story of two teenagers--Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black--and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.

Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.

At 3:17 on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown made up of London and New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until a flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossel blast that disintegrated one of the nation's most modern schools. More than three hundred students and teachers were killed and hundreds more injured. It remains the deadliest school disaster in U.S. history.