"A factual record assembled in depth, this is an important contribution to the archives of integration and nondiscrimination." --Publishers Weekly

"... well-researched and informative... " --Journal of Southern History

"[Reed's] book brings a fascinating band of progressive Southerners into focus, some of them for the first time, and follows them from the late thirties into the sixties. They bear following, and remembering. So does this book." --Southern Changes