Signed Copy / buy Brother to a Dragonfly / Will D Campbell / Biography, Memoir, Southern History, Christianity, Politics, Civil Rights, MLK

In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit family and cared for each other, the two went on to lead very different lives. After serving together in World War II, Will became a highly educated Baptist minister who later became a major figure in the early years of the civil rights movement, and Joe became a pharmacist who developed a substance abuse problem that ultimately took his life.

Brother to a Dragonfly also serves as a historical record. Though Will's love and dedication to his brother are the primary story, interwoven throughout the narrative is the story of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement. Will is present through many of the most pivotal moments in history--he was one of four people who escorted black students integrating the Little Rock public schools; he was the only white person present at the founding of the SCLC; he helped CORE and SNCC Freedom Riders integrate interstate bus travel; he joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign of boycotts, sit-ins, and marches in Birmingham; and he was at the Lorraine Motel the night Dr. King buy was assassinated.

Title: Brother to a Dragonfly

Author: Will D. Campbell

Publisher: The Seabury Press, New York

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Gray Cloth Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Edition: Believed First Edition

Pages: 268

Other Items: Price clipped on dust jacket. Dust jacket has some chips, fading, warming and tiny hole. Inscription by Author - See Picture.
Some pages have warming and spotting. Previous owner had a paperclip that rusted on a few pages - see pictures. There is spotting on text block. Approximate measurements: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4". See pictures.

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