To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement

NY: Roaring Brook Press. (2012). In 1961, Charlayne Hunter was one of two Black students at the University of Georgia; in the mid-Sixties, she was the first Black female writer at The New Yorker, prior to a career that included The New York Times, The MacNeil Lehrer Report, NPR, and CNN. This book begins with Obama's inauguration and then flashes back to the years 1959-1965, concluding with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a prominent couple, active in Democratic politics and philanthropy. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. (Inventory #: 036569)