“I grew up in Selma, Alabama and also on a Compound”

Author Charles A. Bonner’s new book “Tip of the Arrow” is a detailed reflection on the nonviolent movement and events surrounding the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voters Rights Act of 1965.
“Tip of the Arrow: The Selma Student Nonviolent Movement” from Page Publishing, authored by Charles A. Bonner, is a stirring memoir and first-hand account of the momentous events surrounding the movement for integration, civil rights, and racial equality in Selma, Alabama in the early 1960s.

The author’s active participation in the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement as a teenager put him on the front lines of mobilizing voter registration among black citizens. He risked his life and went to jail numerous times for peacefully protesting discriminatory treatment on buses, at lunch counters, and in all aspects of civil society.

Charles A. Bonner is a trial lawyer and civil rights activist in Sausalito, California who has been practicing law for over forty years and has been the lead attorney in more than two hundred jury trials involving civil rights, police misconduct, personal injury, environmental and employment cases. He has just written his latest book “Tip of the Arrow: The Selma Student Nonviolent Movement”: an eye-opening autobiography detailing his own involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and that of many other courageous children, men and women of Selma, Alabama who risked their lives to forge a better future.

The author shares, “The purpose of my book, ‘The Tip of the Arrow: A Study in Leadership’, is to share with young people of today and tomorrow the story of young people like me at age sixteen as the blueprint of the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement, a significant impacting factor in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its dominating influence leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. On February 24, 2016, during a ceremony awarding the Congressional Gold Medal at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, I beamed with personal pride upon hearing Speaker Paul Ryan’s statement that Congress decided to bestow the award to the foot soldiers because their contribution to our country was so great that they deserved the highest honor in our country, the Congressional Gold Medal. ‘The Tip of the Arrow’ is our story.”

Published by Page Publishing, Charles A. Bonner’s engrossing book is an invaluable resource for students and citizens seeking to understand the social and political climate in Selma, Alabama, one of the epicenters of momentous change for civil rights in the United States. Readers who wish to experience this illuminating work can purchase “Tip of the Arrow: The Selma Student Nonviolent Movement” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.

Charles Adams Bonner was born in Selma, Alabama, and in 1963, at age sixteen, joined the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), sitting in at segregated public establishments, peacefully marching for equal rights and serving as president of the high school student activists. In 1965, he became a field director for SNCC’s voter registration project in Wilcox County, Alabama, after being tear-gassed and attacked while marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March 7th, 1965. Now he is a trial lawyer with the Law Offices of Bonner & Bonner in Sausalito, CA. He is also an author, continuing fighting to end discrimination and State Judicial Violence.

Forever changed by his early direct action in the movement, Mr. Bonner has remained committed to equal rights locally and globally, fighting for the rights of U.S. Service men and women, workers, and victims of civil rights violations. In 1972, he earned a degree in Anthropology at Sonoma State University, finishing his degree in Tanzania while studying Kiswahili for one and a half years in a Tanzanian village and obtaining a Certificate of Fluency from the Tanzanian Government in the Official Language, Kiswahili.

Mr. Bonner returned to the U.S. to further his education, enrolling at Stanford, but left Stanford to obtain his law degree from the New College School of Law in San Francisco. He and his son, Cabral, are partners in The Law Offices of Bonner & Bonner. They represent more than 500 U.S. Sailors and Marines who were irradiated by the Fukushima nuclear melt-down while providing humanitarian aid to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami off the East coast of Japan on March 11, 2011. (Bonnerlaw.com) He is also currently litigating a 27-billion-dollar lawsuit, “The Biggest Case of Eco-Fraud In U.S. History”, for 40,000 victims of radiation exposure in the predominantly African American community in San Francisco, California. His first novel, The Bracelet, The Story to End Child Sex Slavery, published in 2010, is based on the story of one of his clients who escaped the dungeon of a sexual predator in upstate New York.