Press 53 . PO Box 30314, Winston-Salem, NC 27130-0314
Press 53 is located at
The Community Arts Cafe
411 W. Fourth St
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
The Free Men
This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker. First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, The Free Men was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction. It is now back in print by Press 53 with a new Afterword by the former UNC-Chapel Hill student, Daily Tar Heel editor, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Wayne King.
The Free Men
by John Ehle
9 x 6, 376 page paperback
with photographs
ISBN: 978-0979304910
$19.95
Meet a few of the key people who attended The Free Men Reunion in 2007 in Winston-Salem and Chapel Hill
Left to right: Pat Cusick, James Foushee, John Dunne, Quinton Baker.
Kevin Watson (Press 53), John Ehle, and an attendee
Wayne King with Quinton Baker
Karen Parker, first female African-American graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill whose jailhouse diary is now archived at Wilson Library.
