Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980 - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 081305432X ISBN 13 : 9780813054322

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2017

Synopsis

While bus boycotts, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience
were the engine of the civil rights movement, the law provided context
for these events. Lawyers played a key role amid profound political and
social upheavals, vindicating clients and together challenging white
supremacy. Here, in their own voices, twenty-six lawyers reveal the
abuses they endured and the barriers they broke as they fought for civil
rights.

These eyewitness accounts provide unique windows into
some of the most dramatic moments in civil rights history--the 1965
Selma March, the first civil judgment against the Ku Klux Klan, the
creation of ballot access for African Americans in Alabama, and the 1968
Democratic Convention. The narratives depict attorney-client
relationships extraordinary in their mutual trust and commitment to
risk-taking. White and black, male and female, northern- and
southern-born, these recruits in the battle for freedom helped shape a
critical chapter of American history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kent Spriggs, author of the two-volume Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, has been a civil rights lawyer for fifty-two years. He practices in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was a city commissioner and mayor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081305432X
• ISBN 13: 9780813054322
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Éditeur: Spriggs Kent
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