A Time to Speak
The Story of a Young American Lawyer's Struggle for His City-and Himself
Published on 28. February 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8173-6048-1 (ISBN)
Description
Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march towards racial justice in the South, and the nation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-6048-1 (9780817360481)
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Additional editions
Morgan Charles Morgan
Time to Speak
The Story of a Young American Lawyer''s Struggle for His City-and Himself
E-Book
02/2022
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€24.49
Available for download
Persons
Charles Morgan Jr. (1930-2009) was a pivotal figure in many of the key legal battles for civil rights and civil liberties in the 1960s and 1970s, successfully arguing many of his most noteworthy victories before the US Supreme Court. In addition to representing key figures in the civil rights movement itself, he argued on behalf of free speech rights for Vietnam War soldiers and protestors alike and led the ACLU's campaign for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. He is also author of One Man, One Voice. Senator Doug Jones is a lifelong resident of Alabama and a graduate of the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law. In 2017, Jones was elected to represent Alabama in the US Senate. He is former US attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and in this role he reopened and successfully prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members for their roles in in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.