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.

Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive account of those critical years in the civil rghts movement. Index. 345 pages.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro Boys, told his story to Earl Conrad, scholar and journalist of black America, after his escape from prison and while he was still being hunted for a crime he did not commit. The book begins with the fight in the train and the trial, but focuses on PattersonÕs experience in numerous Alabama prisons. 309pp.

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: 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.

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, (1987, c 1965). History originally written as a research report for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Footnotes, bibliography, index. x, 141 pp. ISBN: 0-910412294.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the 10th Cavalry, one of the six African-American regiments authorized by Congress in July 1866, who fought alongside white troops (although at lower pay and under worse conditions) on teh western frontier. The name 'buffalo soldiers' was given to them by the Cheyenne. Author's foreword and an afterword with a partial list of Buffalo Soldiers who received a Medal of Honor during the period covered in this novel. Dust jacket praise from General Colin Powell and others. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-312860412.