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Tags Share The 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to Philip Dray for At the Hands of a Person Unknown: The Lynching of Black America and Samantha Power for A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. In At the Hands of a Person Unknown, Dray examines one of the ugliest…

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Tags Share The 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to Philip Dray for At the Hands of a Person Unknown: The Lynching of Black America and Samantha Power for A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. In A Problem From Hell, Power offers a damning and agonizing portrait of the…

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Tags Share Gail Lumet Buckley received the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, an account of the African-Americans who defended the United States despite racism both at home and in the ranks overseas. Gail Lumet Buckley is a journalist…

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Tags Share Eric Arnesen received the 2002 RFK Book Award for Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America’s historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us…

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Tags Share The 2001 RFK Book Award was presented to James Allen for Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America and George Packer for Blood of the Liberals. George Packer’s Blood of the Liberals skillfully blends his family history with the story of liberalism in America, resulting in a moving portrait of idealism and its inevitable…

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Tags Share The 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award went to Anthony Sampson for Mandela and Katherine Newman for No Shame in My Game. Sampson’s Mandela, the only authorized biography of the leader who ended Apartheid, follows Nelson Mandela from his boyhood in remote villages to his transformation into a global icon of strength, moral…

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Tags Share The 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award went to Anthony Sampson for Mandela and Katherine Newman for No Shame in My Game. Katherine Newman’s No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City challenges many of the assumptions surrounding poverty in America. For two years, Newman, a professor of urban…

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Tags Share The 2001 RFK Book Award was presented to James Allen for Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America and George Packer for Blood of the Liberals. James Allen’s Without Sanctuary is a chilling collection of photographs of lynchings that bring the horrors of the past to life. James Allen is a collector who uncovered…

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Tags Share The 1999 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award went to Congressman John Lewis for Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, written with Michael D’Orso. John Lewis has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since 1987. Born of a strong family amidst rural…

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Tags Share The 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards were presented to Randall Kennedy for Race, Crime, and the Law and Samuel Hynes for The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern Conflict. In Race, Crime, and the Law, Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School, not only uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice…

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Tags Share The 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards were presented to Randall Kennedy for Race, Crime, and the Law and Samuel Hynes for The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern Conflict. Samuel Hynes’s The Soldiers’ Tale focuses on the two World Wars and Vietnam, and on the accounts written by victims of war and…

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