Gainesville. 2017. June 2017. University Press of Florida. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Pictorial Boards. No Dustjacket As Issued. 9780813054322. 25 b/w photos. 368 pages. hardcover. keywords: History America Civil Rights Southern. DESCRIPTION - While bus boycotts, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience were the engine of the civil rights movement, the law was a primary context. Lawyers played a major role in this era of profound social upheaval, and the twenty-six contributors to this volume reveal what it was like to be civil rights lawyers in the Deep South. These eyewitness accounts provide unique windows into the most dramatic moments in civil rights history, illuminating the legal fights that heralded the 1965 Selma March, the first civil judgment against the Ku Klux Klan, the creation of ballot access for blacks in Alabama, and the 1968 Democratic Convention. White and black, male and female, Northern- and Southern-born, these lawyers discuss both the abuses they endured and the barriers they broke as they helped shape a critical chapter of American history. CONTRIBUTORS: Henry M. Aronson, Seattle, Washington; Larry Aschenbrenner, Anchorage, Alaska; Fred Banks, Phelps Dunbar LLP, Jackson, Mississippi; Reber Boult, Albuquerque, New Mexico; John C. Brittain, Professor, University of the District of Columbia, School of Law, Washington, D.C. ; Armand Derfner, Derfner & Altman, Charleston, South Carolina; Jack Drake, Birmingham, Alabama; Malcolm ('Mac') Farmer, III, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP, Providence, Rhode Island; William Ferguson, Medford, Oregon; Fred D. Gray, Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gary & Nathanson, P.C., Montgomery, Alabama; Jim Lewis, Springfield, Illinois; Elliott Lichtman, Lichtman & Rosenblum, PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Barbara Schechter Lipman, Miami, Florida; David Lipman, Miami, Florida; Don H. Marmaduke, Portland, Oregon; John L. Maxey, MaxeyWann PLLC, Jackson, Mississippi; Laughlin McDonald, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta, Georgia; Larry Menefee, Montgomery, Alabama; Barbara Y. Phillips, Oxford, Mississippi; Dennis Roberts, Law Offices of Dennis Roberts, Oakland, California; Solomon Seay, Jr., Solomon Seay, Jr., Attorney, Montgomery, Alabama; (deceased); Norman Siegel, Siegel, Teitelbaum and Evans, LLP, New York, New York; Constance 'Connie' Slaughter-Harvey, Founder/President - Legacy Education & Community Empowerment Foundation, Inc., Forest, Mississippi; Richard Sobol, Sebastopol, California; Richard H. Tuttle, Sacramento Superior Court (Retired), Mokelumne Hill, California (deceased). inventory #42073 Very Good in Pictorial Boards. No Dustjacket As Issued.

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Title: Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980
Publisher: University Press of Florida, Gainesville
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081305432X
ISBN 13: 9780813054322
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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"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.

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Kent Spriggs, author of the two-volume Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, has been a civil rights lawyer for fifty-one years. He is an attorney at Spriggs Law Firm in Tallahassee, Florida.

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