The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8139-2695-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer is Michael Meltsner's vivid account of how, as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates, he became such a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. Focused on the inside story of law reform, the book contains portraits of some larger-than-life figures, including Thurgood Marshall, William Kuntsler, and the charismatic black law professor Derrick Bell, as well as of unheralded movers and shakers such as the attorney C. B. King of Albany, Georgia, and Margaret Burnham, who as a young lawyer representing Angela Davis got caught in a racial and generational crossfire.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8139-2695-7 (9780813926957)
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Person
Michael Meltsner, former Guggenheim Fellow and Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy, has been a Professor of Law at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools and Dean at Northeastern School of Law, where he is currently Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law. Author of Cruel and Unusual, the authoritative history of the Legal Defense Fund's campaign to abolish the death penalty, and a novel Short Takes, he is also a licensed marriage and family therapist. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.