Sex and Civil Rights: The True Selma Story
Birmingham: Esco Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound, pictorial wrappers; 32pp; photo illus. Some creasing and wear to wrappers, else a complete, Very Good copy.
A racist smear job, portraying participants in the Selma-Montgomery March as drunks, communists, miscegenators, and weaklings. The author, Albert C. Persons, participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion as a civilian pilot, later exposing the operation, causing some embarrassment to President John F. Kennedy and the C.I.A. As a conservative journalist, Persons was the long-time editor of the Alabama Examiner, through whose pages he published a steady stream of racist agitprop throughout the Civil Rights era.
Price: $150.00