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A MIRROR TO AMERICA: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this noted historian, whose work "From Slavery to Freedom" remained the classic text for over 60 years. Born in 1915, he was "confined to segregated schools, threatened and consistently subjected to racismÕs denigration of his humanity." Yet he went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard & become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution; he has reshaped the understanding and teaching of African American history. INSCRIBED on the half title page.Photographs, index. xi, 401 pp. ISBN: 0-374-29944-7.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88851More details Price: $50.00 -
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in gray illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63224More details Price: $20.00 -
COUNTY WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon novel by this underappreciated writer - the story of a woman in rural Mississippi in 1962, fifty, white and a housewife all her life, who is inspired by the civil rights movement to find meaning in her own life. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-316-942375.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 45664More details Price: $20.00