Free At Last?: the Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It Hardcover - 1991

Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Near fine copy in very good jacket. in very good dust-jacket. Octavo in grey boards and white illustrated jacket protected in mylar; 711 pages, [16] pages of plates: illus.; 24 cm.; jacket is lightly edgeworn with some small chips and closed tears along the edges and corners; boards are lightly bumped at the spine ends; o/w pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; bindind is tight and square; a gently used copy; inscribed by author on half-title page. In English. Contents: pt. 1. A way of life -- The cost of oppression -- Race, creed, color, or national origin -- The South's unique liability -- pt. 2. A movement is born -- The revolution got out of hand -- Old Black women walking in the sun -- Pilgrims -- pt. 3. Resistance: the separate but not equal -- Th power of the ballot box -- The desire to survive politically -- Faith is not enough -- Nothing personal, you understand -- A subtle, gradual tightening down -- pt. 4. Soul force -- Hate and history coming together -- This was our time -- A glorious opportunity -- A handle that we could use -- pt. 5. Confrontation -- An absolutely awful day in Alabama -- A limit to liberalism -- Where's your body? -- In the bowels of the beast -- pt. 6. Albany, Oxford, and Birmingham -- A willingness to suffer -- The land of never -- You relied on local help -- A failed success -- A mission and a nervous stomach -- Not another Oxford -- Mississippi: caught up in the tradition -- Peace in the valley -- So nice to have you in Birmingham -- pt. 7. Other frontiers -- The march -- You always have to worry -- The education of Sharon Burger -- No plan, no program -- pt. 8. Victory -- Segregation is broken -- The end of the terror -- A chronology of significant movement events; Abstract: "Describes the struggle of the men and women, black and white, who dedicated themselves to breaking segregation in America."