Reader's Digest, 1960. Wraps. 12 p. More

New York: Time, Inc., 1963. Wraps. Quarto, 96, wraps, illus. (some in color), More

Place_Pub: New York: Harper & Row, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 638, illus., appendix, index, front DJ flap creased, some creasing to DJ edges. More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 694 pages. Family tree on endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. Plans, Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling and sticker residue. Adele Logan Alexander is an adjunct professor of history at George Washington University, where she has taught since 1983. She teaches the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and African-American women. She has taught at Howard University, University of Maryland, and Trinity College. Her research focuses on the black Atlantic world, African-American history, and family history. She has written two books, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879, and Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926. The latter book won the non-fiction prize of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2003 the African American Historical and Genealogical Society recognized her contributions to family history with an award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution. More

New York: Warner Books, c1989. First Printing. 24 cm, 192, illus., note taped to front endpaper, ink notation on front endpaper, few library markings, DJ taped to boards In this account of the largest mass mutiny trial in U.S. naval history, fifty black seamen were put on trial for refusing to load explosives during World War II. More

New York: Gotham Books, 2006. Advanc Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. ix, 324 p. Sources. Notes. More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First pringing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, 441, [1] p. Bibliographic Note. Index. More

New York, N.Y. Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [4], 512 pages. Minor soiling to bottom edge. Includes Illustrations, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Prelude, Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Root; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in 1934. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism. He worked at The News and Courier, a co-owned weekly paper, The West Ashley Journal, and The State (Columbia). He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for 1965–66. From 1966 to 1973 Bass worked as the Columbia Bureau Chief for The Charlotte Observer and was a lecturer for journalism at the University of South Carolina. He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transformation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994. More

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., [c1998]. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 359 pages. Illus., chapter notes, index, front DJ flap price clipped. Signed by the author (Bass). More

Annapolis, MD: The Annapolis Publishing Company, 1995. PResumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. 208 p. More

New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 425, [5] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes 101 black and white illustrations. Also includes a Prologue, Notes, Acknowledgments, and an Index. Topics covered include Responding to the "Negro" Protest; Among Friends; "So Glad You Finally Made It," "The Dinosaur Finally Opens One Eye,' Killing the Messenger; Fulfilling the Sirit of the Law; "A Pocket of Renegades;" Speak First, Investigate Never; "Mickey Mouse Agency;" Here You Come Again; and "You Can Forget Civil Rights in This Country." Mary Frances Devine Berry (born February 17, 1938) is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor who focuses on U.S. constitutional and legal, African-American history.[1] Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought where she teaches American legal history at the Department of History, School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Previously, Berry was provost of the College of Behavioral and Social Science at University of Maryland, College Park, and was the first African American chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mary Frances Berry, the chairperson for the United States on Civil Rights for a decade, has written its too-little-known history. The commission, rather than producing reports that would gather dust on the shelves, began to hold hearings. She writes about how the commission's hearings and reports helped the nonviolent protest movement prick the conscience of the nation then on the road to dismantling segregation. More

New York, N.Y. Henry Holt and Company, 2004. First Edition [stated]. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [16], 415, [1] pages. Illustrations. Prologue. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Chapters include Where Death Waits; Ain't No Slavery No More; Migration; Uplist Me, Pride; White Houses; The Letter of Your Law; Freedmen, Sons of God, Americans; The Prodigal Son; Prejudice; Judgment Day; and Requiescam. Some creasing to dust jacket edges. Kevin Boyle (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990) is an historian of the twentieth century United States, with a particular interest in modern American social movements. His publications include The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968; Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930 (with Victoria Getis); Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994; and Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, which received the National Book Award for nonfiction, The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize, and the Simon Weisenthal Center’s Tolerance Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was selected for community-wide reading programs in the Detroit metropolitan area and the state of Michigan. He has published essays and reviews in The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit Free Press, Inc, and Cobblestone magazines. He has held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew Carnegie Corporation. More