TEN YEARS OF PRELUDE: THE STORY OF INTEGRATION SINCE THE SUPREME COURT'S 1954 DECISION

Benjamin Muse

Published by Darwen Finlayson, Beaconsfield, U.S.A., 1964

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EX-LIBRARY copy.*** Jacket design by Biro. ***Good in red cloth-covered boards with black titles to spine. Tail of spine has off-setting from a removed label. Library stamp and a 'Withdrawn' stamp on publications details page. Remains of library form and barcode sticker still attached to front free endpaper. Small library stamp to rear, at end of reference notes on page 297. Spine tight. Otherwise clean of library markings. ***Board edges rubbed. No foxing. Interior pages clean. No inscriptions. In a good colour and black and white illustrated dustwrapper which is not price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 35s net. Dustwrapper is not library laminated. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. Head and tail of spine very creased, nicked and rubbed. Corners creased, nicked and rubbed with tiny tears. 2cm closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Back panel slightly rubbed and discoloured (being white background). Pink titles to spine and front panel bright and unfaded. ***308 pages including appendix; The Brown Decision, Bibliography, Reference notes, and index. 220 mm x 144 mm. ***'The passage into law of the Civil Rights Bill in July 1964 was a culminating point in the struggle of the American Negro, supported by the majority of his fellow countrymen, to achieve equality of civil rights and status. ---The prelude to the passage of the Bill, a prelude that began on 17th May 1954 with the Supreme Court's decision declaring segregation in the schools unconstitutional, is set forth here in its historical perspective. ---In the ten years that separate these two events diehard anti-Negro sentiment in the South became solidified, inter-racial relations deteriorated, state-rights and anti Supreme-Court zealots arose, the Ku Klux Klan was revived, and the state was set for violence, It flared in shocking and dramatic fashion in Little Rock in 1957 and 1958; it smouldered in Virginia and reached a crescendo in Mississippi and Louisiana. Opposition to integration was bitter and bloody, but obedience to the law began to make headway. This is the story Mr. Muse, himself a former Virginia Senator, has to tell ; a story of which The New York Times Book Review of May 31st 1964 said: ".this book is perhaps the most accurate, comprehensive fully documented work of its kind, undoubtedly one of lasting value. The impact of the decision, from the initial reaction of the Southern whites - surprisingly free of frank hostility - to the civil-rights revolution that developed near the end of the decade, is treated with precision and balance".' (Quote from inside front jacket blurb). ***An uncommon and scholarly first edition title on American Civil Rights. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 1919

Bibliographic Details

Title: TEN YEARS OF PRELUDE: THE STORY OF ...

Publisher: Darwen Finlayson, Beaconsfield, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition