Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System, The Life and Works of Fred Gray (signed)
Language: English
Published by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama, 2013
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Montgomery, Alabama: NewSouth Books, 2013. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper (his signature only - NOT personalized to anyone). SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Laid in are two event brochures, both featuring Fred Gray as speaker. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. Only light shelfwear -- NO chips, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($32.50). NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 24 pages of b/w photographs. Bound in the original silver-stamped black boards. Complete with pictorial dust jacket. From the dust jacket: "First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray's remarkable career of destroying everything segregated that I could find. Of particular interest will be the details Gray reveals for the first time about Rosa Parks's 1955 arrest. Gray was the young lawyer for Parks and also Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott after Parks's arrest. As the last survivor of that inner circle, Gray speaks about the strategic reasons Parks was presented as a demure, random victim of Jim Crow policies when in reality she was a committed, strong-willed activist who was willing to be arrested so there could be a test case to challenge segregation laws. Gray's remarkable career also includes landmark civil rights cases in voting rights, education, housing, employment, law enforcement, jury selection, and more. He is widely considered one of the most successful civil rights attorneys of the twentieth century and his cases are studied in law schools around the world. In addition he was an ordained Church of Christ minister and was one of the first blacks elected to the Alabama legislature in the modern era. Initially denied entrance to Alabamas segregated law school, he eventually became the first black president of the Alabama bar association. This volume also includes new photographs not found in the previous edition.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his signature only). Revised edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xx, 428pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…
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- Title
- Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System, The Life and Works of Fred Gray (signed)
- Author
- Gray, Fred D. (signed)
- Publisher
- NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good condition
- Dust jacket
- Very Good dust jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1588382869
- ISBN 13
- 9781588382863
- Illustrator
- NOT a library discard
- Edition
- Revised edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Autobiography, Black Studies, Law / Jurisprudence
First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable career of “destroying everything segregated that I could find.”
Of particular interest will be the details Gray reveals for the first time about Rosa Parks’s 1955 arrest. Gray was the young lawyer for Parks and also Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott after Parks’s arrest. As the last survivor of that inner circle, Gray speaks about the strategic reasons Parks was presented as a demure, random victim of Jim Crow policies when in reality she was a committed, strong-willed activist who was willing to be arrested so there could be a test case to challenge segregation laws.
Gray’s remarkable career also includes landmark civil rights cases in voting rights, education, housing, employment, law enforcement, jury selection, and more. He is widely considered one of the most successful civil rights attorneys of the twentieth century and his cases are studied in law schools around the world. In addition he was an ordained Church of Christ minister and was one of the first blacks elected to the Alabama legislature in the modern era. Initially denied entrance to Alabama’s segregated law school, he eventually became the first black president of the Alabama bar association.
This volume also includes new photographs not found in the previous edition.
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