{"product_id":"have-no-fear-the-charles-evers-story-paperback","title":"Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Evers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Szanton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement.\" --The New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.\"--Dan Rather \u003cbr\u003e\"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass.\" --David Levering Lewis \u003cbr\u003e\"Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle.\" --The seattle times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement.\"\" --The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.\"\"--Dan Rather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass.\"\" --David Levering Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle.\"\" --The seattle times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHARLES EVERS lives in Fayette, Mississippi, where he served as mayor for twenty-five years. ANDREW SZANTON is a former oral historian at the Smithsonian Institution. His first book was Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760341844256,"sku":"9781620456934","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/88a2684360567fee82e9d726c4a1b319.webp?v=1780177730","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/have-no-fear-the-charles-evers-story-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}