Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After serving overseas during World War II, returning Black soldiers chafed at the restriction of segregation. "On February 25, 1946, in Columbia, Tennessee, a minor incident between a while clerk and a black Navy veteran and his mother escalated into the first race riot in the United States after World War II. The riot prompted the involvement of individuals and organizations such as Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Communist Party, the NAACP, and the Department of Justice. Legal resolution of the Columbia riot at Mink Slide resulted in death, destruction, and surprising trial verdicts." Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by the author (who grew up in the town of Columbia) on the half title page. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 180 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 1-577360311.