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In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500, 000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store, before the National Guard restored uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were ...

Narrates the dramatic story of the Wilmington Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power and the transformation of post-Civil Rights era political organising. Grounded in extensive interviews, newly declassified government documents, and archival research, this book thoroughly examines the 1971 events and the subsequent movement for justice.

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Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to investigate more than 40 lynchings and race riots in the years following World War I. As executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931 until his death in 1955, White promoted the Harlem Renaissance and...

White is portrayed here in his full complexity, a man whose physical appearance enabled him to negotiate two different worlds. Deeply researched and documented, this biography provides a vantage point from which to view the leading political and cultural figures of his time and a glimpse into the world of civil rights politics and activism in the pre-civil rights era. 8 pages of photos.