UNTIL JUSTICE BE DONE: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

A magisterial history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War. Activists such as John Jones, a free Black tailor from North Carolina whose opposition to the Illinois "black laws" helped make the case for racial equality, demonstrate the role of African Americans in shaping our view of equality. Illus.