A Moment in Memphis : a Reluctant Southern White Boy Becomes a Civil Rights Lawyer and Goes North.

This is the story of a Southern White boy growing up in segregated Mobile and his struggle to escape. In Part One the boy, a newly minted ACLU lawyer in Memphis, encounters racism while seeking to obtain justice for a Black youth beaten by police after Dr. King's assassination in 1968. When thr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fowlkes, Oliver
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montgomery : NewSouth Books, 2021.
Temas:
Fowlkes, Oliver.
Civil rights movement > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movement
1900-1999
Civil rights lawyers > United States > Biography.
Social advocacy.
Avocats des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
Défense des droits économiques et sociaux.
Civil rights lawyers
Social advocacy
Southern States > History.
New England > History.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
New England
Southern States
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • Prologue
  • Part One-Mobile to Memphis
  • 1. Mobile
  • Child
  • Teenager
  • 2. Memphis
  • European Awakening
  • Southern Reckoning
  • Part Two-Memphis to Massachusetts
  • 3. North to the Same Problems
  • Forgotten People
  • 4. Teaching Change, Fomenting Backlash
  • Boston, Divorce Mediation, De Facto Parents
  • Epilogue

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