The People of Clarendon County Contributor(s): Davis, Ossie (Au

Publisher: Third World Press (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 14.95 US

Binding: Paperback

Pub Date: January 01, 2008

Publisher Marketing: This play is about the parents in South Carolina who risked their lives to file the first legal challenge to segregation in public schools. Their case led to Brown v. Board of Education and the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. The book includes biographical information on Ossie Davis; photographs; accounts of the civil rights struggle; and essays, based on the philosophy Aesthetic Realism, which explain the cause of and answer to racism.