Silver Rights

  • SIGNED
  • Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1995
By [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] CURRY, Constance
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Publisher's white linen spine over light blue paper covered boards, titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. [xxvii], 258pp. Very light soiling to the white cloth spine and some minor bumping and wear to extremities, in a clean, bright example of the dustjacket, a very good copy indeed. Internally clean. Black endpapers. Inscribed to the half title by Constance Curry and the Carter Family; Mae Bertha Carter, Beverley Carter, John C. Carter, Pearl, Deborah, Kerry Jackson, Carl Carter, and Chandra, the grand-daughter.

The biographical account, written with the full co-operation of Mae Bertha Carter and the Carter family, of the September 1965 decision on the part of the whole family to take a stand against racial segregation in the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi.

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