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Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers : Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980 /
Civil rights lawyers were handmaidens of change who worked in the back rooms during twentieth-century America's era of profound social upheaval. Kent Spriggs, a noted lawyer of the period, gathers stories of legal maneuvers and memories of racial injustices from 26 voices--white and black, male...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- How civil rights lawyers emerged
- Children of the South / Fred Gray
- The making of a lawyer / Barbara Phillips
- How I became a civil rights lawyer / Jack Drake
- From Gardendale, Alabama / Laughlin McDonald
- Growing up in Winnsboro, South Carolina / Larry Menefee
- Growing up in Bama
- Children of the north / Armand Derfner
- Growing up in the shadow of the holocaust / John C. Brittain
- Growing up on the Gold Coast / David Lipman
- Race consciousness / Mac Farmer
- Why did I go? / Kent Spriggs
- Growing up in Washington, D.C.
- The context of civil rights litigation
- Big events / Fred Gray
- Selma once more: the 1965 Selma March / Larry Aschenbrenner
- The first damages judgment against the KKK / Larry Aschenbrenner and Armand Derfner
- Democratic convention in Chicago: white Mississippi delegation barred / Reber Boult
- Senator McClellan seeks to prove SNCC is communist / Armand Derfner
- Miscegenation comes to Mississippi / Norm Siegel
- The full court press for voting rights in Alabama / Larry Aschenbrenner
- Mississippi seeks to ban the civil rights lawyers
- The tenor of the times / Larry Aschenbrenner
- Mass meetings, demonstrations, and boycotts / Barbara Lipman
- Being married to a civil rights lawyer / Jim Lewis
- From civil rights worker to civil rights lawyer / Dennis Roberts
- B. King, iconic civil rights lawyer / Bill Ferguson
- Seeking justice for a blind black man in front of Judge Cox / Kent Spriggs
- "Summer vacation" in Mississippi / Larry Aschenbrenner
- Get a bullet in your car at the law library / Henry Aronson
- The politics of civil rights lawyering / Kent Spriggs
- The Rev. C.K. Steele and racism in Tallahassee / Elliott C. Lichtman
- Mississippi notes / Armand Derfner
- Opening up the closed society
- Arrests of lawyers (and other "minor indignities") / John C. Brittain
- Arrests while practicing law in Mississippi / Armand Derfner
- Doing a little time in Holly Springs / Mac Farmer
- Elements of procedure I missed at Harvard Law School / Kent Spriggs
- Arrests, a beating, and a moment of weakness / Richard Sobol
- Arrested by Leander Perez Sr. / Henry Aronson
- Getting punched by Sheriff Clark and other misadventures / David Lipman
- Get a rifle barrel in the mouth for monitoring an election in Belzoni / Constance Slaughter-Harvey
- A very bad morning in Rankin County
- Modes of law practice / Fred Banks
- 538{1/2}: the Legal Defense Fund office in Mississippi / Richard Sobol
- Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Louisiana / Mac Farmer
- Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Mississippi / Armand Derfner
- It changed my life: lawyers constitutional rights committee in Mississippi / Larry Aschenbrenner
- The formation of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law / Larry Menefee
- Private practice in Alabama / Jack Drake
- Nonprofit and private practice in Alabama
- Basic legal rights
- Access to justice / Armand Derfner
- The friendly judicial climate
- Voting rights and political representation / Richard Sobol
- Voting shenanigans in Madison Parish / Fred Banks
- Rights lawyers emerge into politics / Laughlin McDonald
- Voting rights in Edgefield County / Larry Menefee
- Challenging at-large elections / Larry Aschenbrenner
- Mississippi pushes back against the Voting Rights Act / David Lipman
- Voting in LeFlore County
- Public accommodations / Solomon Seay
- Solomon Seay seeks public accommodation / Don Marmaduke
- Desegregating the Neshoba County courthouse / Richard Tuttle
- Integrating the Fox Theatre / Richard Sobol
- Trying to get service at Bill's Highway 80 24-hour Truck Stop / Larry Aschenbrenner
- Integrating the Admiral Benbow Inn swimming pool / Henry Aronson
- Desegregating the Parliament House Hotel
- School desegregation and municipal equalization / John Maxey
- Ulysses S. Grant's legacy / David Lipman
- School desegregation and municipal equalization / Fred Banks
- The Legal Defense Fund's massive effort / Kent Spriggs
- Desegregating schools in northern Mississippi
- Employment discrimination / Richard Sobol
- Crown Zellerbach becomes the standard / Kent Spriggs
- The perfectly segregated plant in the perfectly segregated town / Kent Spriggs
- Monsanto: fair employment comes to a megaplant
- How the civil rights movement and litigation advanced other movements for social justice
- Constitutional race-based litigation and the friendly judicial climate lead to other areas of constitutional litigation / Jack Drake
- The constitution comes to the state residential hospitals / David Lipman
- The rule of law comes to infamous Parchman Prison
- How the civil rights movement and litigation informed other movements for social justice / Barbara Phillips
- The legacy of other social justice movements / Mac Farmer
- Rights in Mississippi informs LGBT concerns
- Framing the contemporary dialogue of race / Barbara Phillips
- The Trojan horse called "diversity" / Larry Menefee
- White supremacy lives
- Conclusion.