1964-1975

"[The author] provides an informed understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the Civil rights movement. His analysis of the critical moments conveys the sense of a social movement that shaped its participants even as they shaped it"--Provided by publisher.

Two sisters on the run from Jim Crow justice in 1964 Jackson, Mississippi, flee to separate parts of the country, unaware that they are both being pursued by someone with dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding them that is unknown to anyone but himself.

The author tells her life story, describing her Pennsylvania childhood, her college years in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, her experiences as a welfare caseworker during the Depression, her four decades as president of the National Council of Negro Women, and her top-level involvement in the civil rights movement.

The author tells her life story, describing her Pennsylvania childhood, her college years in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, her experiences as a welfare caseworker during the Depression, her four decades as president of the National Council of Negro Women, and her top-level involvement in the civil rights movement.

A personal account of the sixties and seventies displaying Baldwin's fury and despair including the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to America's South.