Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America

"Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account" (Booklist, starred review).

Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America—a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most notable setbacks in...