1995: "Speak Now Against the Day", by John Egerton

15th Annual RFK Book Award

Judges: Stanley Crouch, Cathie Pelletier, Robert Remini, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., John Seigenthaler, Sr., and George Stevens, Jr.

Grand Prize Winner:
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, John Egerton

Distinguished Honors:
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, Melba Patillo Beals