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.

New York: Trident Press, 1968.. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes over 100 documents covering more than 3 centuries, from slavery through the modern fight for civil rights. Among the documents are the Massachusetts Body of Liberites, early protests of the Germantown Mennonites, the constitution of Alabama, the Fugitive Slave Act, Nat Turner's 'confession' , writings by W. E. B. DuBois, Stokely Carmicheal and Martin Luther King, the Gavagan Antilynching bill and much more. 671 pages, including index.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive guide to the early years of the civil rights movement, meticulously researched. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, index. 1064 pp plus photographic plates. ISBN: 0-671-460978.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.

New York: Random House, (1998). SIGNED first edition - Includes excerpts from 4 books issued in 1998 "Unafraid of the Dark", "The Children", "The Ghosts of Medgar Evers", and "The Killing Dream." SIGNED by Gerald Posner at the beginning of his contribution, a re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 59 pp. ISBN: 0-67677086X.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the founder of the largest black law firm in Alabama. Born in 1930, he was involved in the struggle for civil rights from the time of the marches in 1965 and afterwards. A picture of an important era, of one man's history, and of the politics of a small southern town. Photographs, map, index. xiii, 432 pp. ISBN: 0-374-114048.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.). First edition - Autobiography of the founder of the largest black law firm in Alabama. Born in 1930, he was involved in the struggle for civil rights from the time of the marches in 1965 and afterwards. A picture of an important era, of one man's history, and of the politics of a small southern town. . xiii, 397 pp. plus 3 pp list of photographs for the final version, but which are not included in this ARC.

New York: Platt & Munk, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brief biographical sketches written for older children or young adults. Includes chapters on Amelia Earhart, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Luther King, Richard E. Byrd, Rachel Carson, Chief Joseph, Anne Frank, Jacques Cousteau, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Alvin York, Joan of Arc, Heinrich Schliemann, and Alain Bombard (with this French doctor who proved that man can survive at sea with no supply of food or water, being perhaps the least known of the 14). Each chapter is preceded by a full page drawing by Huntley Brown. Wraparound dustjacket painting by Alan Leiner. 258 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996) dj. Hardcover - A novel which is part detective story, part history and part a 'sideshow of the human comedy." It "starts off conventionally enough when journalist Billy Tone shows up in the town of Paradise Springs to investigate a bizarre murder that occurred on the same day [in 1968] that Martin Luther King was assassinated. But poet and novelist George Garrett has something else in mind. That something else turns out to be farce. A rich stew of chaos, comedy, old jokes, and ranting characters, the novel also finds room for a biography of Martin Luther King and a character named Raphael who smokes a corncob pipe, sports a pith helmet, and just might be the angel Raphael." 336 pp. ISBN: 0-151575541.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which is part detective story, part history and part a 'sideshow of the human comedy." It "starts off conventionally enough when journalist Billy Tone shows up in the town of Paradise Springs to investigate a bizarre murder that occurred on the same day [in 1968] that Martin Luther King was assassinated. But poet and novelist George Garrett has something else in mind. That something else turns out to be farce. A rich stew of chaos, comedy, old jokes, and ranting characters, the novel also finds room for a biography of Martin Luther King and a character named Raphael who smokes a corncob pipe, sports a pith helmet, and just might be the angel Raphael." 336 pp. ISBN: 0-151575541.

New York: Scribner's, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - An intriguing novel by this National Book Award winning writer - a fictional look at the last years of Martin Luther King's life. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Dustjacket praise from Robert Olen Butler, David Guterson, James McBride among others. ISBN: 0-68481224X.

New York: Scribner's, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An intriguing novel by this National Book Award winning writer - a fictional look at the last years of Martin Luther King's life. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Dustjacket praise from Robert Olen Butler, David Guterson, James McBride among others. ISBN: 0-68481224X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.

New York: The New Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five essays on education, especially urban public education (and its failures) by this innovative thinker. Foreword by Colin Greer. xvii, 153 pp. ISBN: 156584095X.

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: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - set in Memphis in 1968 where tense racial relations are beginning to build towards danger, as the strike of the sanitation workers enters its third week. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-312262647.

New York: The Viking Press, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book for readers of all ages - one which explores the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960's from the viewpoint of ordinary people who participated in it - and especially the memories of those who marched for freedom as children. Illustrated with many photographs. SIGNED and dated by the author in the year of publication. Large format, notes, bibliography, index. 72 pp. ISBN: 0-670-011894.

New York: Anchor Books, (2011). SIGNED - A non-fiction thriller nominated for the Edgar. "On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel.. . As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for Kings assassin that would lead them across two continents." SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a new afterword by Sides, notes, bibliography. 463 pp. ISBN: 978-0307387431.