{"product_id":"9781456766955","title":"Personal Verdict: A Civil Rights Novel","description":"College freshman Jeff Martindale’s life begins changing almost the instant he meets Rev. Isiah Booker, a former Temple University halfback now active in the nascent Civil Rights Movement.  Jeff is from a nearly all-white, small northern Michigan town.  Isiah’s a Philadelphian, 12 years older and black.  Their chance meeting at a casual party on the University of Michigan campus grows from a mutual interest in fly-fishing to full-fledged friendship blended with a mentoring relationship that gradually awakens Jeff to the staggering cruelties of the segregated South, nearly 100 years after the Civil War.  Jeff and girlfriend, Susan Adams, volunteer for paper-shuffling duties at the Ann Arbor NAACP, but grow increasingly frustrated with minimal national civil rights progress, even after they’re jailed for joining two Tennessee sit-ins.  When unspeakable violence strikes, Jeff shockingly risks his life, his future and Susan’s love to pursue what only he views as a morally greater cause.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174535741680,"sku":"9781456766955","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781456766955_p0.jpg?v=1763863354","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781456766955","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}