{"product_id":"9780983229667","title":"at the dangerous edge of social justice: race, violence and death in America","description":"at the dangerous edge of social justice is a book of profiles on courage on facing prejudice in America.\u003cbr\u003e Chapters include: Emmett Till, killed at 14 in 1955; Medgar Evers, killed at 37 in 1963;\u003cbr\u003eMalcolm X, killed at 39 in 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr., killed at 39, in 1968, James Byrd Jr. killed at 49 in 1998, Trayvon Martin, killed at 17 in 2012. \u003cbr\u003e Other chapters include: John Howard Griffin, who died his skin black and wrote the classic \"Black Like Me\"; Grace Halsell, who died her skin black and wrote \"Soul Sister\"; civil rights icons Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks, Rodney King and others.\u003cbr\u003e Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr's \"I Have a Dream\" speech,\" an Epilogue shows dramatically how far America is from being a fully post-racist society: blacks are still twice as likely as whites to live in poverty; twice as likely to be unemployed as whites; the net worth of white families is 22 times greater than black families -- and on and on -- \u003cbr\u003e This is a sad, tragic -- and powerful -- book.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091395121392,"sku":"9780983229667","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983229667","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}