“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966

1992: "PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK", BY MELISSA FAY GREENE

12th Annual RFK Book Award

Judges: Senator George McGovern, McGeorge Bundy, Anna Quindlen, Julian Bond, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and John Seigenthaler, Sr.

Grand Prize Winner:
Praying for Sheetrock, by Melissa Fay Greene

Honorable Mention:
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration to the North and How it Changed America, Nicholas Lemann ; and

When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children Sylvia, Ann Hewlett

Special Recognition:

Life in the Ghetto, Anika D. Tho

Logo photo: Stanley Tretick, Sidebar photo: Bill Eppridge