Is Bill Cosby Right? , Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xvi, 288 p. Notes. Index. More
New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xvi, 288 p. Notes. Index. More
New York: Bantam Books, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 416, small ink mark on front endpaper. More
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 76 pages. Illustrations. Some cover wear. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted and imprisoned of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder. Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 22 pages. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Peter Benjamin Edelman (born January 9, 1938) is an American lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and for the Clinton administration, where he resigned to protest Bill Clinton's signing the welfare reform legislation. Edelman was one of the founders and president of the board of the New Israel Fund. Edelman worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, from 1964 to 1968, accompanying Kennedy to his meeting with labor leader Cesar Chavez. Edelman also met his wife while touring impoverished areas of Mississippi with Kennedy to prepare for reauthorization of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Following Kennedy's assassination, Edelman spent brief period working as deputy director for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. More
Berkeley, CA: Interstellar Media, [c1988]. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Claude Pepper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 320, bibliography, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ, slight edge soiling. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 320, bibliography, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 320 pages, illus., bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 365, notes. More
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 212 pages. Contains Foreword, Afterword, and Index. Front flyleaf price clipped. Morris Ernst (1888–1976) was an American lawyer and prominent lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Ernst practiced law in New York City and in 1915 co-founded the law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst.[1] He joined the board of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1927 and was one of the most prominent and successful ACLU attorneys from the 1920s through the 1960s. Ernst was a strong supporter of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.[citation needed] In 1940, as head of the ACLU, he agreed to bar communists from employment there and even discouraged their membership, basing his position on a distinction between the rights of the individual and the rights of groups. In 1946, President Harry Truman appointed him to the President's Committee on Civil Rights. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 329, [1] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Some pencil erasures noted. Some corners creased. Raymond Arthur Esthus, professor of history at Newcomb College, Tulane University. He was a graduate of Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fla. and received a Ph.D. from Duke University. He taught at Brevard College, Brevard, N.C. and University of Houston before coming to Tulane, where he was professor of Far Eastern and American Diplomatic History. He was elected and served as national president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and was founder of Tulane's Asian Studies Program. He was the author of four books and numerous articles on the Far East, especially Japan. He served as its acting dean and chaired the Newcomb Centennial Committee. He retired in 1995, having taught at Newcomb for thirty-eight years. He served in the U.S. Army in WWII in the medical corps. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm, 382, [2] pages. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on bottom edge . Jackie Robinson's extraordinary courage, his dignity, and his feats on the field as the first African-American to play on a major league team made him not only a great sports legend but a genuine American hero. In this moving portrait, Falkner explores the lifelong influences on Robinson, the pressures he had to bear, and the contributions he made to the cause of integration. From Robinson's famous battle with the army over segregation to his rigidly maintained restraint in the face of ugly prejudice and life-threatening hostility from baseball fans and players alike, to his post-baseball efforts to help African-Americans establish an economic base within mainstream America, Falkner illuminates Robinson's determination to make a lasting difference in American society. More
Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1998. Second Printing. 163, wraps, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. More
New York, N.Y. Arbor House, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 370, [2] pages. Acknowledgments. Occasional Footnotes. Epilogue. Appendixes. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and sticker residue. Topics covered include Mississippi Revisited; PK (Preacher's Kid); Drawing Board; Intellectual Coming of Age; Looking for a Place to Stand; Spreading of the Wings; Cut Off at the Pass; The Nixon Foray; and Ebbtide. James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the first Freedom Ride in 1961, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States. In 1942, Farmer co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality in Chicago along with George Houser, James R. Robinson, Samuel E. Riley, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, and Joe Guinn. It was later called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through nonviolence. Farmer served as the national chairman from 1942 to 1944. By the 1960s, Farmer was known as "one of the Big Four civil rights leaders in the 1960s, together with King, NAACP chief Roy Wilkins and Urban League head Whitney Young." More
New York: Harper & Row, c1982. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 486, DJ worn, soiled, and torn, minor edge soiling. More
New York, NY: Lexington Books [an Imprint of Macmillan, Inc. ], 1993. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. viii, 344 p. Tables. Notes. Index. More
Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, c1993. First Edition. 22 cm, 193, minor mars to DJ front and rear, front DJ flap folded. More
New York: Scribner, c1998. First Printing. 25 cm, 224, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Scribner, c1998. First Printing. 25 cm, 224, illus., usual library markings, DJ pasted to boards. More
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 330 p. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Index. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. 255, illus., index. As told to Ralph Leighton. More
Beltsville, MD: amana publications, 2001. Reprint. Fourth printing [stated, 2003]. Hardcover. vi, 323, [1] p. Color Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 418 pages, illus., Name written on front flyleaf, edges soiled. William Finnegan (born 1952) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing. In 1986, he was sent to Johannesburg, where he followed black reporters who gathered information for white reporters during Apartheid. This led to the 1988 publication of Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters. A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, published in 1992, grew out of a series of correspondences about the war-torn nation for the magazine, and Finnegan's own travels throughout that war-torn nation. More
Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011. Later printing. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 97, [7] pages. Signed on title page. National Book Award Winner sticker on front cover. Autographed Copy sticker on front cover. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957 in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature. An alumna of Talladega College, and author of four books of poetry and a short story cycle, Finney is an advocate for social justice and cultural preservation. Her honors include the 2011 National Book Award for Head Off & Split. Finney's fourth book of poems, Head Off & Split, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2011. On October 12, 2011, Head Off & Split was announced as a finalist for the 2011 National Book Awards, with Finney honored as the 2011 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry on November 16, 2011. Her acceptance speech at the awards ceremony, touching on race, reading and writing, was extraordinary; host John Lithgow judged it "the best acceptance speech for anything that I've ever heard in my life". Head Off & Split was selected as the 2015-2016 First Year Book by University of Maryland, College Park. This work provides an opportunity for students and faculty to delve into complex topics using a common text. More
London: Putnam, 1935. Reprint Edition. 23 cm, 496, illus., maps, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, some wear and soiling to boards, edges somewhat soiled. More