New York: Dutton, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this civil rights activist and labor unionist (in 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American-led labor union.) He developed the civil rights tactics which Martin Luther King, Jr. later used, and was influential in organizing the March on Washington. Introduction by Bayard Rustin. (The excellent 2023 film 'Rustin' depicts his importance to the movement and that event) Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, index. xii, 174 pp. ISBN: 0-525353259.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2019. First edition - A memoir of this trailblazing African American civil rights attorney, published shortly after her death in 2018 at the age of 104. "At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washingtons white legal establishment and prevailed, winning a 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of 'separate but equal' and shatter Jim Crow laws. Later, she led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the AME Church in 1961, merging her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence." Foreword by Tayari Jones.
Notes, selection of discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, index. 271 pp.

New York: Haymarket Books, 2016. First edition - In this analysis, "activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and argues that the persistence of structural problems such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment have created a context in which this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation." Extensive notes. 254 pp. Issued as a trade paperback original.

New York: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, (2003.) dj. SIGNED first edition - Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this significant Supreme Court decision, this is an anthology by ten of today's top writers for children - both African American and white - including Eloise Greenfield, Ishmael Reed, Quincy Troupe, Lois Lowry, Jean Craighead George, Jerry Spinelli, Katherine Patterson, Michael Cart, Leona Nicholas Welch and Thomas herself - which presents their experiences and recollections of life before the historical Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools in 1954, and afterwards. SIGNED by Lois Lowry at her contribution "Anthony." Illustrated with full page color pastel drawings by James Curtis. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 114 pp.