at the dangerous edge of social justice

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at the dangerous edge of social justice is a book of profiles on courage on facing prejudice in America. Chapters include: Emmett Till, killed at 14 in 1955, Medgar Evers, killed at 37 in 1963, Malcolm X, killed at 39 in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., killed at 39, in 1968, James Byrd Jr. killed at 49 in 1998, Trayvon Martin, killed at 17 in 2012. Other chapters include: John Howard Griffin, who died his skin black and wrote the classic "Black Like Me", Grace Halsell, who died her skin black and wrote "Soul Sister", civil rights icons Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks, Rodney King and others. Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech, " an Epilogue shows dramatically how far America is from being a fully post-racist society: blacks are still twice as likely as whites to live in poverty, twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, the net worth of white families is 22 times greater than black families -- and on and on -- This is a sad, tragic -- and powerful -- book.