The making of a civil rights lawyer /

"Part memoir and part critical study, The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer offers both a personalized history of the civil rights movement from a participant's perspective and the compelling account of how a lawyer committed to social change discovered himself in his work."--BOOK JACKE...

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Main Author: Meltsner, Michael, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Macon, Georgia
  • How I went to work for Thurgood Marshall
  • What they didn't teach me at the Yale Law School
  • On-the-job training
  • A sense of the work
  • A white civil rights lawyer
  • Greenberg and Bell
  • Me and Muhammad
  • The complex world of law reform
  • Litigation : means of choice or last resort?
  • Legal killing revisited
  • The future of the death penalty.