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The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer
Michael Meltsner
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Description for The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer
hardcover. Offers an 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, the author became a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. This book is useful to lawyers and to students of the history of the 1960s, civil rights, and African American studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JPVH1; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 585.
It was not until I arrived at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that I learned my profession, how to work with colleagues and clients, and how it might feel to grow up in the law. So begins 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. Part memoir and part critical study, ""The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer"" offers both a personalized history of the ... Read more
It was not until I arrived at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that I learned my profession, how to work with colleagues and clients, and how it might feel to grow up in the law. So begins 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. Part memoir and part critical study, ""The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer"" offers both a personalized history of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925011
SKU
V9780813925011
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About Michael Meltsner
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer
Michael Meltsner has performed a great public service by recalling from his perspective as a lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund how lawyers helped bring about social change during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This memoir will be of great interest to a generation unfamiliar with that remarkable time in American history, as well as to those ... Read more