The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement - Couverture rigide

Harrington, Jim

 
9781477332344: The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement
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ISBN 10 : 1477332340 ISBN 13 : 9781477332344
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2025

Synopsis

Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.

Jim Harrington arrived in South Texas in 1973, ready to file class action lawsuits and “save the world.” Over the following fifty years, he built one of Texas’s key civil rights organizations and played an essential role in many of its greatest victories.

Harrington takes readers on his journey from a Midwest seminary to a United Farm Workers office in the Rio Grande Valley and on to founding the Texas Civil Rights Project. He fought for the rights of a wide range of Texans, bringing justice to victims of police brutality, injured farmworkers, silenced students, and people with disabilities excluded from full participation in society, building a movement for social justice, and a family, along the way. These major gains were tempered by heartbreaking losses, and Harrington recounts the difficult work of persevering in the face of injustice.

Framed by a foreword from Judge Lora Livingston and an afterword by Congressman Greg Casar, The Texas Civil Rights Project is at once a history of the struggle for equality over the last fifty years, a celebration of the individuals and grassroots organizations who fought hard to improve the lives of others, and a memoir of a singular force who pushed the Texas justice system to live up to its ideals.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jim Harrington founded the Texas Civil Rights Project and served as its director from 1990 to 2015. Previously, he led the South Texas Project, served as the Texas Civil Liberties Union's lawyer, taught at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, and was César Chávez's Texas attorney.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1477332340
ISBN 13 
9781477332344
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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