Marshalling Justice

Collected here together for the first time are the selected letters of one of the most influential and important activists in the American civil rights movement—the brilliant legal mind and foot soldier for justice, Thurgood Marshall. For twenty years prior to the...

The Loveliest Woman in America

Her name was Rosamond Pinchot: hailed as “The Loveliest Woman in America,” she was a niece of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; cousin to Edie Sedgwick; half sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK’s lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth...

First Class Citizenship

Never-before-published letters offer a rich portrait of the baseball star as a fearless advocate for racial justice at the highest levels of American politics Jackie Robinson’s courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the struggle for civil...