1st Annual RFK Book Award (1980-81)

	Winner: William H. Chafe Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
	Honorable Mention: John Langston Gwaltney Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America
	Honorable Mention: John Gaventa Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley

Judges: Marian Wright Edelman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Michael Harrington, Rose Styron