This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC.
It is now back in print by Press 53 with a new Afterword by the former UNC-Chapel Hill student, \'Daily Tar Heel\' editor, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Wayne King..
First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, \' The Free Men \' was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction.
The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker.
This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC
