One-Shot Harry, Phillips - B

              Harry is a Black veteran of Korea and a part-time photographer in LA in the summer of 1963. The Black community is abuzz with Tom Bradley's mayoral candidacy and the planned visit of Dr. Martin Luther King. A fellow veteran and friend, a white man, is killed, likely by the Providers, a racist white supremacist organization working hard to keep the Black and Mexican communities down. Harry pursues the murder as far as he can and risks his life along the way. The novel excels at depicting the hard-scrabble times as the US moves from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights movement. Very well done.