Black Lives, White Lives

Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue   features a   remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists.  One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. "I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it."