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The story of Mary Church Terrell is as inspiring as it is vital in understanding the demise of legal segregation. Joan Quigley has done a remarkable job chronicling Terrell's impassioned fight for equal rights in the years before Brown v. Board of Education, and Just Another Southern Town is an important addition to civil rights literature. -- Gilbert King, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil in the Grove The headline 'Eat Anywhere' seems so simple. But without the determination and diligence of people like Mary Church Terrell, it would be only a wistful dream for African Americans in this country. Joan Quigley illuminates the story of Terrell with exquisite research, rich context and heartfelt care. -- Robin Givhan, author of The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History Quigley's narrative of Terrell and her court case is especially relevant in the wake of numerous well-publicized killings of black citizens by police officers and the latest wave of black activism. -- Kirkus Reviews Joan Quigley's Just Another Southern Town isn't 'just another' biography. In gripping detail, it traces the inspiring story of Mary Church Terrell, whose crusade for civil rights in the nation's capital took her all the way to the Supreme Court in a life that spanned Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. Just Another Southern Town is a powerful reminder of the difference anyone, especially an elderly black woman, can make in the life of a people and its laws. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University During most of Mary Church Terrell's ninety-one years, Washington D.C. was indeed just another Southern town where she could not eat in restaurants that catered to whites or sit wherever she chose in movie theaters. This incisive biography of Terrell and her victorious quest for dignity and equality of treatment fills an important place in the history of the civil rights movement. -- James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University By focusing on an unjustly neglected case and a highly intelligent protagonist who knew all the key actors and left a detailed diary, Joan Quigley makes the early years of the modern civil rights movement come alive. She has a rare gift for making us care about the hopes, frailties, and disappointments of specific individuals by setting them in an illuminating, sure-handed account of large political forces and legal ideas. -- Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School Just Another Southern Town is a powerful reminder of the difference anyone, especially an elderly black woman, can make in the life of a people and its laws. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Just Another Southern Town is a powerful reminder of the difference anyone, especially an elderly black woman, can make in the life of a people and its laws. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. By focusing on an unjustly neglected case and a highly intelligent protagonist who knew all the key actors and left a detailed diary, Joan Quigley makes the early years of the modern civil rights movement come alive. She has a rare gift for making us care about the hopes, frailties, and disappointments of specific individuals by setting them in an illuminating, sure-handed account of large political forces and legal ideas. -- Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School During most of Mary Church Terrell's ninety-one years, Washington D.C. was indeed just another Southern town where she could not eat in restaurants that catered to whites or sit wherever she chose in movie theaters. This incisive biography of Terrell and her victorious quest for dignity and equality of treatment fills an important place in the history of the civil rights movement. -- James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University Joan Quigley's Just Another Southern Town isn't 'just another' biography. In gripping detail, it traces the inspiring story of Mary Church Terrell, whose crusade for civil rights in the nation's capital took her all the way to the Supreme Court in a life that spanned Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. Just Another Southern Town is a powerful reminder of the difference anyone, especially an elderly black woman, can make in the life of a people and its laws. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Quigley's narrative of Terrell and her court case is especially relevant in the wake of numerous well-publicized killings of black citizens by police officers and the latest wave of black activism. -- Kirkus Reviews The headline 'Eat Anywhere' seems so simple. But without the determination and diligence of people like Mary Church Terrell, it would be only a wistful dream for African Americans in this country. Joan Quigley illuminates the story of Terrell with exquisite research, rich context and heartfelt care. -- Robin Givhan, author of The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History The story of Mary Church Terrell is as inspiring as it is vital in understanding the demise of legal segregation. Joan Quigley has done a remarkable job chronicling Terrell's impassioned fight for equal rights in the years before Brown v. Board of Education, and Just Another Southern Town is an important addition to civil rights literature. -- Gilbert King, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil in the Grove

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Joan Quigley is an attorney and former business reporter for the Miami Herald. She is the author of The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy, for which she received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. She lives with her husband outside of Washington, D.C. Kate Reading is the recipient of three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot. Her favorite BOT recordings include Like Water for Chocolate, Middlemarch, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.

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