Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980

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.…