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Knocking Down Barriers
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Truman K. Gibson Jr. has been a civilian aide to the Secretary of War, a member of two president advisory committees, and the president of the International Boxing Club. He is an attorney in Hyde Park, Illinois. Steve Huntley is editor of the editorial page of the Chicago Sun-Times and a former senior editor at U.S. News & World Report.

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"Knocking Down Barriers is a wonderful book ripe with stories and insights that illuminate many of the dark corners of America's struggle for integration and racial justice during the 1930s and 1940s. While this engagingly written memoir explores the intersection of race, sports, entertainment, and law, Gibson's greatest contribution is his recollections of the personalities, debates, and barriers in the battle to integrate the armed forces. Gibson's words help us to better understand the difficulties and the ultimate importance of the successful challenge to a segregated military and how those actions helped create an environment that stimulated and supported the nascent civil rights movement. This is a must-read."
--Lonnie G. Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society

"Gibson entertains and enlightens in recollecting the living detail of the national capital, the nation itself, and many of its iconic figures in the hard-fought struggle to desegregate. His is an important addition to the historical record. . ." --Library Journal, starred review

"This informative book is a time capsule covering many rich experiences of one man over nine decades. In addition to recounting his participation in the successful struggle to desegregate the armed forces, Mr. Gibson takes the reader along on a grand tour of his interactions with many key figures in the political, military, business, sports, and entertainment worlds of the 20th century." --Jimmy Carter

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