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

Cover -- VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- PART 1. HOW CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERS EMERGED -- 1. CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH -- The Making of a Lawyer -- How I Became a Civil Rights Lawyer -- From Gardendale, Alabama -- Growing Up in Winnsboro, South Carolina -- Growing Up in Bama -- 2. CHILDREN OF THE NORTH -- Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust -- Growing Up on the Gold Coast -- Race Consciousness -- Why Did I Go? -- Growing Up in Washington, D.C -- PART 2. THE CONTEXT OF CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION -- 3. BIG EVENTS -- Selma Once More: The 1965 Selma March -- The First Damages Judgment against the KKK -- The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago: White Mississippi Delegation Barred -- Senator McClellan Seeks to Prove SNCC Is Communist -- Miscegenation Comes to Mississippi -- The Full Court Press for Voting Rights in Alabama -- Mississippi Seeks to Ban the Civil Rights Lawyers -- 4. THE TENOR OF THE TIMES -- Mass Meetings, Demonstrations, and Boycotts -- Being Married to a Civil Rights Lawyer -- From Civil Rights Worker to Civil Rights Lawyer -- C. B. King, Iconic Civil Rights Lawyer -- Seeking Justice for a Blind Black Man in Front of Judge Cox -- "Summer Vacation" in Mississippi -- Get a Bullet in Your Car at the Law Library -- The Politics of Civil Rights Lawyering -- The Rev. C. K. Steele and Racism in Tallahassee -- Mississippi Notes -- Opening Up the Closed Society -- 5. ARRESTS OF LAWYERS (AND OTHER "MINOR INDIGNITIES") -- Two Arrests While Practicing Law in Mississippi -- Doing a Little Time in Holly Springs -- Elements of Procedure I Missed at Harvard Law School -- Two Arrests, a Beating, and a Moment of Weakness -- Arrested by Leander Perez Sr -- Getting Punched by Sheriff Clark and Other Misadventures.

Get a Rifle Barrel in the Mouth for Monitoring an Election in Belzoni -- A Very Bad Morning in Rankin County -- 6. MODES OF LAW PRACTICE -- 538½: The Legal Defense Fund Office in Mississippi -- Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Louisiana -- Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Mississippi -- It Changed My Life: Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Mississippi -- The Formation of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law -- Private Practice in Alabama -- Nonprofit and Private Practice in Alabama -- PART 3. BASIC LEGAL RIGHTS -- 7. ACCESS TO JUSTICE -- The Friendly Judicial Climate -- 8. VOTING RIGHTS AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION -- Voting Shenanigans in Madison Parish -- Civil Rights Lawyers Emerge into Politics -- Voting Rights in Edgefield County -- Challenging At-Large Elections -- Mississippi Pushes Back against the Voting Rights Act -- Voting in Leflore County -- 9. PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS -- Solomon Seay Seeks Public Accommodation -- Desegregating the Neshoba County Courthouse -- Integrating the Fox Theater -- Trying to Get Service at Bill's Highway 80 24-Hour Truck Stop -- Integrating the Admiral Benbow Inn Swimming Pool -- Desegregating the Parliament House Hotel -- 10. SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND MUNICIPAL EQUALIZATION -- Ulysses S. Grant's Legacy -- School Desegregation and Municipal Equalization -- The Legal Defense Fund's Massive Effort -- Desegregating Schools in Northern Mississippi -- 11. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION -- Crown Zellerbach Becomes the Standard -- The Perfectly Segregated Plant in the Perfectly Segregated Town -- Monsanto: Fair Employment Comes to a Megaplant -- PART 4. HOW THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND LITIGATION ADVANCED OTHER MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE -- 12. CONSTITUTIONAL RACE-BASED LITIGATION AND THE FRIENDLY JUDICIAL CLIMATE LEAD TO OTHER AREAS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION.

The Constitution Comes to the State Residential Hospitals -- The Rule of Law Comes to Infamous Parchman Prison -- 13. HOW THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND LITIGATION INFORMED OTHER MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE -- The Legacy of Other Social Justice Movements -- Civil Rights in Mississippi Informs LGBT Concerns -- 14. FRAMING THE CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUE OF RACE -- The Trojan Horse Called "Diversity" -- White Supremacy Lives -- Conclusion -- About the Editor -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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