New York: Clarion Books, (2004) dj. Hardcover - An account for older children of a singer who broke down many racial barriers, based on her own letters and writings. Illustrated with photographs throughout. A Newbery Honor Award book, and winner of the Robert Siebert medal. Notes, selected bibliography, index. 119 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-439799341.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by a writer known for his explorations of questions of ethics and morality in his books - Set in a small town in rural New England, from 1946 through the 1970s, this is the story of former Army chaplain, Rabbi David Hartman, and Congregational minister Martin Cooper, who, along with their wives, maintain a friendship that withstands small-town prejudices and the and larger turmoil in the world outside their town - McCarthyism, the Civil rights movement, Vietnam and the struggle for women's rights. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-39536101X.

New York: Book Find Club (Reynal and Hitchcock), (1945) dj. Hardcover - Early edition of this noted playwright's first novel, second book, a story of anti-Semitism in the United States -but more broadly a look at how attitudes change when someone is first perceived to be "like us" and then is revealed to be the "other." the publisher's name Reynal and Hitchcock is shown both on the spine of the book and on the dust jacket. 217 pp.

Homewood IL: Dorsey Press, (1969). "The first anthology of the literature of segregation and white supremacy. The readings span three-quarters of a century to reveal the nature, intensity, and tenacity of anti-Negro ideas and the reasons for them. " Among these articles are those by Robert Bennett Bean published in 1906 on "The Negro Brain" and Shaler on the permanence of racial characteristics, and others defending the South, calling on religion to support segregation, on the horror of interracial marriage and more. Even generally respected historians like Hubert Howe Bancroft did not hesitate to express opinions like "the freed African is a failure." Includes an epilogue of a rebuttal to the ideas and distortions in these collected pieces and a bibliographical essay. 177 pp