Black Lives, White Lives: Three Decades of Race Relations in America

by Bob Blauner

Book Overview

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." Twenty-four years later, Spence had become a respected pillar of that same Mississippi town, serving as its first black alderman.

The story of Howard Spence is just one of the remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520069501
• ISBN13: 9780520069503
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"