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Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Author : Kent Spriggs
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059690
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers written by Kent Spriggs and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating. . . . The kind of book you can open anywhere, maybe thumb back or forth a few pages, and settle into a good story.”—USA Today "One of the great, largely unknown stories of American history. This volume is a wonderfully evocative demonstration of something often discounted--how important law and lawyers were, and remain, in realizing the promise of full equality for all citizens."--Kenneth W. Mack, author of Representing the Race "Filled with tales of ordinary people exhibiting extraordinary courage, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers provides a penetrating and vital new perspective on one of the most turbulent and important periods in American history."--Lawrence Goldstone, author of Inherently Unequal "Spriggs has performed a great service for future historians and for all of us by collecting the personal memories of lawyers who put their boots on the ground and their lives on the line in the Deep South during the tumultuous civil rights movement."--James Blacksher, civil rights attorney, Birmingham, Alabama "The different voices are incredibly effective at both describing a harrowing series of events for the lawyers and allowing readers to hear how they interpreted those events in their own individual ways. A powerful work."--Thomas Aiello, author of Jim Crow's Last Stand 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. Kent Spriggs, author of the two-volume Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, has been a civil rights lawyer for over fifty years. He practices in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was a city commissioner and mayor.

More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Author : KENT. SPRIGGS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813079165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers written by KENT. SPRIGGS and published by . This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.

Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Author : Kent Spriggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813053134
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers written by Kent Spriggs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six contributors tell their stories about being civil rights lawyers in the Deep South. A thematic structure is employed to reflect these stories. Ten of the stories describe how children of the South and children of the North chose to become civil rights lawyers. The context of civil rights lawyering is explored from big events such as the 1965 Selma march to the everyday experiences of mass meetings and the recurring racism of Neshoba County. The misadventures of civil rights lawyers are described from arrests, to beatings, to a black lawyer being called by a racial epithet in court by a judge.

Rebels in Law

Author : John Clay Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086467
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Rebels in Law written by John Clay Smith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reflections on their lives in law of pioneer black women lawyers

From the Black Bar

Author :
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From the Black Bar written by and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1976 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of 25 essays on race and law, written by Black law professors, judges and attorneys.

Representing the Race

Author : Kenneth W. Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674069560
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Representing the Race written by Kenneth W. Mack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful excavation of the first era of civil rights lawyering.”—Randall L. Kennedy, author of The Persistence of the Color Line “Ken Mack brings to this monumental work not only a profound understanding of law, biography, history and racial relations but also an engaging narrative style that brings each of his subjects dynamically alive.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations through the prism of a collective biography of African American lawyers who worked in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking justice for diverse clients, they confronted a tension between their racial identity as black men and women and their professional identity as lawyers. Both blacks and whites demanded that these attorneys stand apart from their racial community as members of the legal fraternity. Yet, at the same time, they were expected to be “authentic”—that is, in sympathy with the black masses. This conundrum, as Kenneth W. Mack shows, continues to reverberate through American politics today. Mack reorients what we thought we knew about famous figures such as Thurgood Marshall, who rose to prominence by convincing local blacks and prominent whites that he was—as nearly as possible—one of them. But he also introduces a little-known cast of characters to the American racial narrative. These include Loren Miller, the biracial Los Angeles lawyer who, after learning in college that he was black, became a Marxist critic of his fellow black attorneys and ultimately a leading civil rights advocate; and Pauli Murray, a black woman who seemed neither black nor white, neither man nor woman, who helped invent sex discrimination as a category of law. The stories of these lawyers pose the unsettling question: what, ultimately, does it mean to “represent” a minority group in the give-and-take of American law and politics?

Representing the Race

Author : Kenneth W. Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065301
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Representing the Race written by Kenneth W. Mack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers.

The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer

Author : Michael Meltsner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926957
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer written by Michael Meltsner and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a white Yale Law School graduate, Meltsner began his career with the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, working initially under Thurgood Marshall and later under Jack Greenberg. From his vantage point at LDF, Meltsner witnessed and participated in litigation support of the civil rights movement in the South. As the movement shifted north and the fight for desegregation gave way to black-power slogans, Meltsner remained involved with the LDF and later went on to teach public interest practice at Columbia Law School. He watched the move from the high expectations after the Brown v. Board of Education decision to the lows of subsequent resegregation. He recalls his involvement in other civil rights efforts, from the campaigns to abolish capital punishment to Muhammad Ali's legal battle to regain his right to box. Meltsner closes with a chapter that examines the strategic possibilities of the No Child Left Behind mandate. Meltsner brings a personal perspective to this assessment of the hopes, potential, and shifting terrain of public service law. A worthy read. --Vernon Ford Copyright 2006 Booklist.

All for Civil Rights

Author : W. Lewis Burke
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350990
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book All for Civil Rights written by W. Lewis Burke and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted to the South Carolina bar. All for Civil Rights is the first book-length study devoted to those lawyers’ struggles and achievements in the state that had the largest black population in the country, by percentage, until 1930—and that was a majority black state through 1920. Examining court processes, trials, and life stories of the lawyers, Burke offers a comprehensive analysis of black lawyers’ engagement with the legal system. Some of that study is set in the courts and legislative halls, for the South Carolina bar once had the highest percentage of black lawyers of any southern state, and South Carolina was one of only two states to ever have a black majority legislature. However, Burke also tells who these lawyers were (some were former slaves, while others had backgrounds in the church, the military, or journalism); where they came from (nonnatives came from as close as Georgia and as far away as Barbados); and how they were educated, largely through apprenticeship. Burke argues forcefully that from the earliest days after the Civil War to the heyday of the modern civil rights movement, the story of the black lawyer in South Carolina is the story of the civil rights lawyer in the Deep South. Although All for Civil Rights focuses specifically on South Carolinians, its argument about the legal shift in black personhood from the slave era to the 1960s resonates throughout the South.

Integration Now

Author : William P. Hustwit
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469648563
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Integration Now written by William P. Hustwit and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the history of an often-ignored landmark Supreme Court case, William P. Hustwit assesses the significant role that Alexander v. Holmes (1969) played in integrating the South's public schools. Although Brown v. Board of Education has rightly received the lion's share of historical analysis, its ambiguous language for implementation led to more than a decade of delays and resistance by local and state governments. Alexander v. Holmes required "integration now," and less than a year later, thousands of children were attending integrated schools. Hustwit traces the progression of the Alexander case to show how grassroots activists in Mississippi operated hand in glove with lawyers and judges involved in the litigation. By combining a narrative of the larger legal battle surrounding the case and the story of the local activists who pressed for change, Hustwit offers an innovative, well-researched account of a definitive legal decision that reaches from the cotton fields of Holmes County to the chambers of the Supreme Court in Washington.

Up Against the Law

Author : Luca Falciola
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469670305
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Law written by Luca Falciola and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of the legal system, questioning the neutrality and transformative power of law. While exploiting the courtrooms as political forums, they developed aggressive litigation strategies and became involved with the organization of protest. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola reconstructs this largely unmapped phenomenon and challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements. At the heart of this book is the story of the National Lawyers Guild. Founded in 1937, the Guild represented the first integrated and progressive bar association of America. The Guild returned to prominence in the early 1960s, at the vanguard providing legal aid to civil rights workers in the South. Since then, leftist students, disobedient soldiers, rebellious inmates, radical minorities, and revolutionary groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Weather Underground have relied on this cadre of sympathetic lawyers to defend and empower them.

Deep Delta Justice

Author : Matthew Van Meter
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316435023
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Deep Delta Justice written by Matthew Van Meter and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou 2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver). In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful white supremacists in the South, a man called simply "The Judge." In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. Using first-person interviews, in-depth research and a deep knowledge of the law, Van Meter shows how Gary Duncan's insistence on seeking justice empowered generations of defendants-disproportionately poor and black-to demand fair trials. Duncan v. Louisiana changed American law, but first it changed the lives of those who litigated it.

Dissenting Voices in American Society

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378990
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Dissenting Voices in American Society written by Austin Sarat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It brings together under the lens of critical examination dissenting voices that are usually treated separately: the protester, the academic critic, the intellectual, and the dissenting judge. It examines the forms of dissent that institutions make possible and those that are discouraged or domesticated. This book also describes the kinds of stories that dissenting voices try to tell and the narrative tropes on which those stories depend. This book is the product of an integrated series of symposia at the University of Alabama School of Law. These symposia bring leading scholars into colloquy with faculty at the law school on subjects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in law.

Voices of the Path: Great Civil Rights Activists

Author : Jose Americo de Paiva Moreira
Publisher : Jose Americo Paiva Moreira
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Path: Great Civil Rights Activists written by Jose Americo de Paiva Moreira and published by Jose Americo Paiva Moreira. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Voices of the Path: Great Civil Rights Activists" takes readers on an inspiring journey through the lives of remarkable individuals who have indelibly shaped history. These Black activists have demonstrated the immense power of collective action in the relentless fight for justice and equality. From the iconic figures of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to the often overlooked but equally significant leaders like Olaudah Equiano and Sojourner Truth, their struggles and achievements have left an indelible mark on society. Through their impassioned speeches, courageous protests, and selfless sacrifices, they have paved the way for the advancement of racial equality. As we immerse ourselves in this book, we are compelled to reflect upon the persistent inequalities that plague our society. These activists serve as a poignant reminder that the fight for civil rights is an ongoing battle, and it is the responsibility of each generation to actively combat racism and discrimination. The diverse strategies and perspectives employed by these visionary leaders challenge us to critically examine our own roles in the creation of a just and equitable society. Their stories inspire us to become agents of change, drawing strength and inspiration from their unwavering courage. While "Voices of the Path" represents a multitude of voices, it is important to acknowledge the countless other activists whose stories are not captured within these pages due to limitations of space. We honor their invaluable contributions and recognize that history is replete with remarkable individuals who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of justice and equality. May the stories within this book resonate deeply within us, serving as a constant reminder that true change begins with each and every one of us. Let us celebrate the activists whose stories are presented here and, in doing so, remember and honor all those who have fought tirelessly for civil rights. Together, we can continue the noble struggle for a brighter and more inclusive future.

Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers

Author : Vernon L. Farmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers written by Vernon L. Farmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of black American professionals, both historic and contemporary, reveal the hardships and triumphs they faced in overcoming racism to succeed in their chosen fields. This extraordinary four-volume work is the first of its kind, a comprehensive exploration of the obstacles black men and women, both historic and contemporary, have faced and overcome to succeed in professional positions. Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers includes the life and career histories of black American pioneers, past and present, who have achieved extraordinary success in fields as varied as aviation and astronautics, education, social sciences, the humanities, the fine and performing arts, law and government, and medicine and science. The set covers well-known figures, but is also an invaluable source of information on lesser-known individuals whose accomplishments are no less admirable. Arranged by career category, each section of the work begins with a biographical narrative of early black pioneers in the field, followed by original interviews conducted by the editors or autobiographical narratives written by the subjects. In all, more than 150 scholars and professionals share inspiring insights into how they persevered to overcome racism and succeed in an often-hostile world.

African American Activism and Political Engagement

Author : Angela Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440876320
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book African American Activism and Political Engagement written by Angela Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable resource for understanding trends and issues in African American political organizing; the history of Black Liberation movements in the United States; and the fortitude, determination, reliance, beauty and influence of Black culture and community. The book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, including the importance of Black women in early labor organizing; campaigns defending Black voting rights against suppression and disenfranchisement; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the contributions and legacy of the nation's first Black president, Barack Obama. The encyclopedia itself contains approximately 200 authoritative entries on a wide assortment of topics related to African-American political activism and empowerment, including biographical profiles of key leaders and activists, political issues and topics of particular interest to African=American voters and lawmakers, important laws and court cases, influential organizations, and pivotal events in American culture that have influenced the trajectory of Black participation in the nation's political life.

Bloody Tuesday

Author : John M. Giggie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197766668
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Tuesday written by John M. Giggie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday, as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement.