Black In Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. [Inscribed]

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); blue paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xvi,431,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Lucky / Her father had the right idea! / J.L. Chestnut Jr. / August 7, 1990." Spine ends gently nudged, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $22.95), with light surface wear and some corresponding faint creasing to spine ends; Near Fine. Autobiography of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. (1930-2008), the first Black attorney in Selma, Alabama, chronicling the history of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, the 1965 March to Montgomery, Bloody Sunday, and his examination of the realities of power and politics in the South. 82644.