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In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
Spiegel & Grau
February 2012
On Sale: February 7, 2012
249 pages
ISBN: 0385524749
EAN: 9780385524742
Kindle: B004EPZ4LW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John
Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy
Cross who shared Dr. King’s dream of an integrated society,
drove up and down the East Coast searching for African
American high school students to recruit to the school,
young men he felt had the potential to succeed if given an
opportunity. Among the twenty students he had a hand in
recruiting that year were Clarence Thomas, the future
Supreme Court justice; Edward P. Jones, who would go on to
win a Pulitzer Prize for literature; and Theodore Wells, who
would become one of the nation’s most successful defense
attorneys. Many of the others went on to become stars in
their fields as well.
In Fraternity,
Diane Brady follows five of the men through their
college years. Not only did the future president of Holy
Cross convince the young men to attend the school, he also
obtained full scholarships to support them, and then
mentored, defended, coached, and befriended them through an
often challenging four years of college, pushing them to
reach for goals that would sustain them as adults.
Would these young men have become the leaders
they are today without Father Brooks’s involvement?
Fraternity is a triumphant testament to the power of
education and mentorship, and a compelling argument for the
difference one person can make in the lives of others.
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