Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570035342 ISBN 13: 9781570035340

Publisher: University South Carolina Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy chronicles the life and accomplishments of the attorney who led the struggle for desegregation in South Carolina, served as a primary legal advocate in the national civil rights movement, and became South Carolina's first African American U.S. District Court judge. In this volume, scholars of the civil rights era, fellow civil rights activists, jurists, attorneys, a governor, and an award-winning photojournalist join together to produce a multilayered biography of Matthew J. Perry. Collectively they bring to light the remarkable achievements of a man well known in his home state but sometimes obscured on the national stage by the shadows of Thurgood Marshall, J. Waties Waring, and Charles Hamilton Houston.

About this title

About the Author

W. Lewis Burke is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. He is the coeditor of At Freedom's Door (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), the story of African American leaders and lawyers during Reconstruction, and the author of many articles on legal history. Burke lives in Columbia. Belinda F. Gergel is the coauthor of In Pursuit of the Tree of Life: A History of the Early Jews of Columbia, South Carolina, and the Tree of Life Congregation and articles on local history in South Carolina. A former chair of the department of history and political science at Columbia College, she also resides in Columbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University South Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570035342
• ISBN 13: 9781570035340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Burke W.Lewis, Gergel Belinda L.