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By Gertrude Wilson

Dispatches of the 1960s, from a White Writer in a Black World.
Author: Justine Priestley

$21.95 in Hardback, with dust jacket

She wrote from the South at the height of the tensions over integration in 1964, walked with Coretta Scott King in Memphis after her husband was assassinated, and held the hand of Malcolm X’s small daughter a few hours after he was shot.

Justine Priestley, a white, Upper East Side New York mother of four was invited from 1961 to 1971 to write her opinions about life in the tumultuous 1960s for the leading African American newspaper of the day, New York’s Amsterdam News. This selection of her “White on White” columns is still pertinent today.