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BLACK LIVES, WHITE LIVES: Three Decades of Race Relations in America.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1990.). Candid interviews with sixteen black Americans and twelve white Americans starting in 1968, with most interviewed again in 1979 and 1986. These interviews capture the racial tensions of the late 1960's and the changing perspectives of the 70's and 80's - some are encouraging; others are often angry or disillusioned accounts of failed promises, misunderstandings, and lost opportunities. This trade paperback edition includes two new essays by the author - 'The Author's Story' and 'Where Are the People Now.' Also includes an appendix with the methodology used, notes, and a bibliographic essay. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-520069501.
Condition: Very good in stiff black wrappers.
Book ID: 38953More details Price: $10.00 -
READY FROM WITHIN: SEPTIMA CLARK AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (hint of sunning to the spine)
Book ID: 79267More details Price: $75.00 -
JUST LIKE MARTIN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Actor and writer's first novel - a story for young adults about the early days of the civil rights struggle in Alabama. INSCRIBED on the title page "To Patricia, the best of everything, always.." and dated in 1993. ISBN: 0-671-732021.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53575More details Price: $45.00 -
JUST LIKE MARTIN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - Actor and writer's first novel - a story for young adults about the early days of the civil rights struggle in Alabama. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-671-732021.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54064More details Price: $11.50 -
W.E.B. DUBOIS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography for older children and young adults of this lifelong activist for equal rights by these award winning writers. "DuBois, conducted a lifelong crusade to insure that every person, regardless of race, had all the rights, privileges, and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. The McKissacks reveal his frustration with the divisiveness within the movement and among its leaders, causing him to embrace the socialist movement and eventually to become a member of the Communist party. His self-exile to Ghana and becoming a citizen of that nation is briefly mentioned." Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A title in the Impact Biographies Series. Appendix of the writings of DuBois, source notes, bibliography, index. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-531109399.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj.
Book ID: 85973More details Price: $20.00 -
FREEDOM IN THE AIR: Song Movements of the Sixties.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: International Publishers, (1965). First edition - The author's first book, a study of folk songs concentrating on the freedom songs arising from the Civil Rights battles in the South and topical songs from folksingers and composers in the North. Includes Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and others. Notes. 127 pp.
Condition: Good overall (previous owner's name, that of poet Elizabeth Harrod, on front line
Book ID: 86120More details Price: $25.00 -
WATCH ME FLY: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book - an autobiography of a remarkable life - by the widow of the slain Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers. Photographs, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-316255203.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line, light toning to pages, appears unread.)
Book ID: 57399More details Price: $16.50 -
AND DO REMEMBER ME
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, a story starting in the "Freedom Summer" of the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. ISBN: 0-385-415060.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27257More details Price: $16.00 -
HARLEM PRINCESS: The Story of Harry Delany's Daughter.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Vantage Press Inc. (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a woman who was the daughter of a black numbers banker in Harlem in the 1920's, who became the highest ranking woman at NASA. Includes a tribute to the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and a first hand account of the Freeman Field Incident where 101 black flying officers were arrested and charged with mutiny. She also tells of her son's struggle with AIDS and of her personal accomplishments and disappointments. Photographs. 346 pp with notes. ISBN: 0-533-088828.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookstore stamp on front endpaper.) Uncommon.
Book ID: 27382More details Price: $35.00 -
ANDREW YOUNG: Man With a Mission.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this civil rights activist, clergyman, legislator, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Photographs, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-688418961.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj. (price-clipped)
Book ID: 74532More details Price: $15.00 -
THE KLANSMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a "chillingly realistic novel about the role being played by the Ku Klux Klan in the present-day South." Set in a small county in Alabama, just after the Selma march and the murder of Viola Liuzzi, and the Klan has risen again in "self-defense against outside agitators." Basis for the film of the same name, starring Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, and O.J. Simpson. 303 pp
Condition: Near fine in a very good- dust jacket (small stamped prev owner's name on ffep, dj somewhat rubbed)
Book ID: 46489More details Price: $15.00 -
MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very personal account of their lives, by the wife of one of the most influential men of the 20th century, from his childhood, his early years as a civil rights activist and minister, to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and his assassination. INSCRIBED by Coretta Scott King on the front endpaper "To --- with deep appreciation for your support and commitment to the dream. " ix, 371 pp plus a section of 16 pages of photographs. ISBN: 0-03-0810221.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket. (some offsetting to front endpaper, dj price-clipped, some rubbing and wear to edges of dj,)
Book ID: 75274More details Price: $225.00 -
SYMBOLS, THE NEWS MAGAZINES, AND MARTIN LUTHER KING .
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Discusses the ways in which the major news media - especially Time Magazine, Newsweek and US News and World Reports - presented Martin Luther King to their readers during his lifetime. Bibliography. Index. xi, 376 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-15231.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52833More details Price: $25.00 -
JEWS AND BLACKS: Let the Healing Begin.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20866More details Price: $18.00 -
AND ALL OUR WOUNDS FORGIVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1960's - the story of a charismatic civil rights leader, whose life ends in assassination. 228 pp. ISBN: 1559702583.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 52836More details Price: $20.00 -
AND ALL OUR WOUNDS FORGIVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1960's - the story of a charismatic civil rights leader, whose life ends in assassination. 228 pp. ISBN: 1559702583.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall a tight and clean copy.
Book ID: 52837More details Price: $10.00 -
AND ALL OUR WOUNDS FORGIVEN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1996.). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1960's - the story of a charismatic civil rights leader, whose life ends in assassination. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6003309.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 52838More details Price: $10.00 -
CARRY ME HOME: Birmingham ,Alabama; The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
Edition: Large trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Very good ( tear at top of spine.)
Book ID: 28486More details Price: $12.00 -
VOICE OF DELIVERANCE: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and its Sources.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Free Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-scale analysis of the sources of King's major sermons and public works, a study which concludes that King's ability to reshape old works, whether from the African American folk church or from more formal Protestant sermons, was his greatest rhetorical strength. Notes, works cited, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-02-9215218.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52834More details Price: $20.00 -
FOUR SPIRITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow - HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th book by this prize winning, and highly praised author, an epic novel set in Birmingham, Alabama during two years of the civil rights' struggle for equal rights - a period which Naslund, a Birmingham native, lived through. The four spirits of the title are the spirits of the 4 little girls who were killed in the church bombing in September of 1963, and it is to them that this book is dedicated. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-06-6212383.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 26848More details Price: $38.00 -
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: Walk Together, Children, Don't You Grow Weary.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45673More details Price: $50.00 -
NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good minus in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus dust jacket (some dampstaining affecting the margins of the endpapers and a few pages, some bleeding from the cloth to the interior of the dj) Despite the flaws this is a decent copy of an uncommon book.
Book ID: 84958More details Price: $125.00 -
CHILD OF THE DREAM: A Memoir of 1963.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 78403More details Price: $30.00 -
CHOICES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 20th century as seen and lived by a woman of the South - joining the Red Cross after making her debut at the beginning of the depression, she becomes embroiled in a miners' strike in Kentucky - later she volunteers for the war in Spain, and returning to the US in the 60's, she becomes involved in the Civil Rights movement. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-385-47699x.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33072More details Price: $45.00 -
ALL THE DAYS PAST, ALL THE DAYS TO COME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84722More details Price: $20.00 -
ALL THE DAYS PAST, ALL THE DAYS TO COME.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (very light crease on upper corner of front endpaper, a bit of pushing at the ends of the spine, but overall a tight and clean copy, rather uncommon signed.)
Book ID: 84754More details Price: $45.00 -
FIRE IN THE STREETS: America in the 1960s.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, some minor edgewear to dj. original price of 14.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 84372More details Price: $30.00 -
FIRE IN THE STREETS: America in the 1960s.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some minor edgewear to dj, creasing on dj flap, original price of 14.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 84769More details Price: $35.00 -
THE KING GOD DIDN'T SAVE. Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book intended to be controversial, one that reevaluates the role of King and, among other points, argues that MLK was a product of the media and society and offered no real threat to the Establishment. 221 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dustjacket (some highlighting to text, a tear on the front cover of the dj with associated creasing, price clipped.)
Book ID: 86257More details Price: $20.00