New York Times, A Best Book of the Year, 1973 A son tries to understand the violent murder of his father--civil-rights leader Rev. Robert Spike--in 1966. At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the...