"Jack Washington's carefully researched and uniquely valuable history of Black Trenton will reward anyone who opens its pages." -Nell Painter, Edwards professor of American History, Princeton University

"Jack Washington has done it again! The Quest for Equality is a powerful chronicle that blazes new trails by recounting an preserving the untold history of African-Americans in out city." -Douglas H. Palmer, Mayor of Trenton

"The Quest for Equality is a fine piece of work. It brings into focus many issues of concern to the Trenton Community." -Paul Pintella, The Urban League of Metropolitan Trenton

"Washington's findings are both instructive about broad themes in African-American history and richly evocative of a world that is in danger of being forgotten. From church groups and ball teams to political organizations: it's all here, uncovered by a scholar who is in love with his subject and with his own personal quest to discover its past." -Sean Wilentz, Professor of History, Princeton University

"Jack Washington has done the type of research that has been needed to demonstrate from whence we have come." Thomas Malloy, Artist

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JACK WASHINGTON has been a history teacher in the Trenton public school system for twenty years. He is the author of In Search of a Community's Past: The Black Community in Trenton, New Jersey, 1860-1900 (AWP, 1990).

CATEGORY
History/AFRICAN AMERICAN