More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers : Continuing the Struggle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spriggs, Kent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--Southern States.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights lawyers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2024.

Summary:

In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in thestruggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United StatesSouth, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia toFlorida.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Abbreviations

Editor's Note

Introduction

Chapter 1. Law Students Civil Rights Research Council

The Law Students Civil Rights Research Council

A Transformative Internship with Attorney C. B. King

Clerking in Mobile

Panola County, Mississippi, in 1966

I Don't Want to Die in Vietnam

My Dad as a Role Model

My Memories of the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 2. Southern Legal Action Movement

SLAM: The Organizing Drive and the Summer Institute

Southern Legal Action Movement

Chapter 3. North Mississippi Rural Legal Services

Bonds, Bridges, and Defining Moments

From the Law School to the Community: The Early Years of North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, 1966-70

Holmes County, Legal Services, Summer 1970

Chapter 4. Trying Cases

Louie Baeza and the Fork in the Road

A Sometimes Strange and Unusual Career

The Corum Claim: A New Remedy

From Wall Street to Occupy Wall Street: A Journey

Chapter 5. Movement Figures

Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, 1964-66

The Civil Rights Movement Comes to an End: The 1966 Meredith Mississippi March against Fear

Why I Went South and What I Did There

When Lawyers Could Win Civil Rights Suits in Alabama

Chapter 6. New Delivery Systems

Life after Passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Mississippi Center for Justice: Building Homegrown Capacity to Dismantle Mississippi's Historic Culture of Injustice

Conclusion: Where Are We Going?

Imagine and Create the Third Reconstruction

About the Editor

Contributors

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Spriggs, Kent More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

ISBN:

9780813073453

OCLC:

1467956791