New York: Crown, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Irreverent essays dissecting the current state of affairs between blacks and whites by this black female political/social humorist. ISBN: 0517597594.

Boston: Western Islands, (1967). Hardcover first edition - A warning (or maybe diatribe would be more accurate) against what the authors see as a growing Communist influence in the United States. Although the focus is on the Civil Rights, with many pages devoted to attacking Martin Luther King, and Black Power movements, it also includes the student movements in the universities, and the Delano movement among agricultural laborers. Introduction by W. Cleon Skousen; foreword by the editors. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Large format, 115 pp.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A first hand account of the early days of America's civil rights struggle. Inspired by the actions of the four black college students who refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's on February 1, 1960, D'Army Bailey, the freshman class president at Southern University - the largest predominantly black college in the nation - joined with his classmates in their battle against segregation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Now a circuit court judge in Tennessee, this is a look at the years that changed America and shaped his life. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bailey on the half title page. Foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Illustrated with photographs, index. xiv, 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0807134764.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful and moving book, about the legal challenges and about the courage of those involved: 6 year old Ruby Bridges and the 3 other black first graders in 1960, their parents, and the parents of the white students who persisted in sending their children to a desegrated school, of federal district judge J. Skelly White, and black Creole attorney A. P. Tureaud and more. Photographs, notes, bibliography and sources, index. 564 pgs.

New York: Norton, (1966.). Covers events from the filing of the original suit on behalf of 13 African American children in Topeka, Kansas to the decision in the 1954 landmark case, Brown v. The Board of Education. Index of juridical terms and general index. 161 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of original source documents compiled from the writings of African-American activists from 1895 through 1965, including Monroe Trotter, Bayard Rustin, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Angelo Herndon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, John Lewis, and many others. Information on the founding and aims of the various protest movements: The Niagara Movement, NAACP, CORE, SNCC, SCLC, etc. The first book publication of some of the documents. A title in The American Heritage Series under the general editorship of Leonard W. Levy and Alfred Young. Index. xliii, 444 pp.

London: Allison & Busby, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Political autobiography by this black revolutionary - who became the 5th head of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, from 1967-68, when he was just 23 years old. A galvanizing figure, he converted to Islam while serving a prison term and after his release in 1976, he became a respected Muslim spiritual leader and community activist in Atlanta, preaching against drugs and gambling. Nevertheless, in 2002, in a case with many unanswered questions, he was convicted of murdering a sheriff's deputy and wounding another, and has been serving a life sentence ever since. Index.117 pp. ISBN: 0-85031-0245.

Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - An attempt to present a balanced look at the Watts Riot, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, that tell the story far more graphically than words can. Includes an Appendix: The text of the McCone Commission report. Maps, bibliography, index. Large format. 160 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1965. First edition - A slim brochure which collects three significant articles on this topic: a two part article on 'Marxism and the Negro' and Clifton Berry's 'Reply to Harold Cruse' both originally published in 'The Liberator' in 1964 and George Breitman's five part series on 'Marxism and the Negro Struggle which appeared in August and September 1964 in the weekly newspaper 'The Militant.' 48 pp. Uncommon in the original edition.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book written 30 years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, this is based on 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, as it describes important sites state-by-state across the South."Both a history of the struggle and an indispensable traveler's guidebook to civil rights in the Deep South." Illustrated with photographs. Includes an appendix listing the sites, end notes, selected sources, index. Map endpapers. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-393045927.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary firsthand account of the New Haven Black panther trial with Charles Garry and Catherine Roraback for the defense - the longest and most expensive in Connecticut history, one which ended with a hung jury (11-1 and 10-2 to acquit) after 6 days of deliberation and dismissal by the judge. In addition to the detailed trial notes, the author places this trial in the context of the late 1960s revolutionary movements, and in the injustice often encountered by Black defendants. Index. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-671212842.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992). First edition - An introduction to the basic views of Malcolm X in an alphabetical format, which includes brief quotations from interviews with Malcolm X, as well as short reminiscences by those who knew him. Illustrated with photographs. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-881849103.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book described as "one of the most comprehensive studies yet of a single campaign within the civil-rights movement" (NY Times) and as a "reminder of both the heroism and the brutality displayed in the great civil rights crusade." (New Republic) Received the 1979 Chastain Award, presented by the Southern Political Science Association to the author of the best book on the politics, government, or public administration of the United States South. Illustrated with photographs and tables. Extensive notes, index. xiii, 346 pp. ISBN: 0-300022476.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collaboration between these two noted Black scholars and writers, two essays which look at W.E.B. DuBois's concept of the talented tenth, and address the dreams, fears, aspirations, and responsibilities of the Black community - especially the Black middle class and elite - on the eve of the 21st century. Appendix with the DuBois's Talented Tenth address, notes. xvii, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-67944405X.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. An examination of a chapter in the history of Civil Rights in the US and in Georgia. In the wake of the US Supreme Court's Brown decision outlawing segregated schools, violence erupted in the South. The young rabbi of Atlanta's oldest synagogue spoke up for racial justice, and in October1958, the synagogue was blown apart by dynamite. Winner of the Southern Critics Nonfiction Award. Photographs, notes, index, 502 pages. ISBN: 0-224-040510.

New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page. The author's first book, this is the story of the political awakening of a tiny black community in coastal Georgia in the 1970's. Shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. 335 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-201-550482.

Lexington,KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988 dj. Hardcover first edition - Records in his own words the story of Johnson, a Kentucky teacher, and grassroots leader in the civil rights struggle since the 1930's. Photographs, index. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-813116740.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which discusses the obligations of those who are Christians to support the objectives of the Civil Rights movement, not just through integrating their churches but through political action. This explores "possible Christian responses to the American Negroes' call for Black Power [that] places Black Power in perspective within the history of American race relations as a whole andin the broad context of social change since World War II. . . It represents a shift from accommodation to conflict: it has been accompanied by a shift in Negro stategy from protest to political mobilization, and a shift in a im from desegregation and assimilation to pluralism and self-assertion." Footnotes. ix, 228 pp.

New York: Putnam, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A conservative's take on the legacy of Martin Luther King - the creation of a "house divided" for the second time - but this time, it is not between slavery and freedom, but "between law and lawlessness." Notes, index. 567 pp.

Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books Inc., (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather controversial look at the life of Jesse Jackson - As it discusses his contributions to the civil rights movement, and examines his political career, the authors contend that Jackson used race politics to advance his own aspirations for wealth and power. Foreword by Ralph Abernathy. Notes on sources, index. viii, 269 pp. ISBN: 0-915463083.

New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the historical alliances and difference between the two communities in the hopes that once again they can understand each other and work together. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-399-140468.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1985). A classic work of sociology which "focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. . . the political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement." Notes, bibliography, index. viii, 304 pp. ISBN: 0-226555526.

New York Simon & Schuster, (2001.). Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A definitive study of a cataclysmic year in the Civil Rights struggle - a year that saw fire hoses and police dogs turned on non-violent protestors, the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church which killed 4 young black girls and more. Based on police and FBI documents, interviews with black activists and Ku Klux Klan members. 719 pp with index. ISBN: 0-7432-17721.

New York: Random House, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the making of the movie "Ghosts of Mississippi" and an examination of the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963 and the trial over 30 years later of his killer. Reading list, index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-679-459561.