“This was an excellent book. I can see why it won a National Book Award. It is so well-written and the tale is so gripping and dramatic that you can easily forget that you are reading history and become as absorbed as you would in a good novel. Yet, it tells an important tale pivotal to understanding the United States' long march toward realizing the ideals of equality espoused in the Constitution. It filled a gap in my knowledge of the Civil Rights movement for racial justice prior to the...”

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