now in paperback Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
Edited by KENT SPRIGGS Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Fascinating. . . . The kind of book you can open anywhere, maybe thumb back or forth a few pages, and settle into a good story.” —USA Today “Equal parts stunning, eyeopening, overwhelming, and, ultimately, very necessary to read and comprehend. Essential.”—Choice “An important reminder of the critical role attorneys played in the civil rights movement.”—Post and Courier “We owe much to the pioneering work of this generation of civil rights lawyers who translated their moral and political beliefs into representation of those most in need of legal services. . . . Spriggs has given voice to those who helped secure some semblance of equal justice in that critical historical period.”—Civil Rights Litigation Handbook “One of the great, largely unknown stories of American history. This volume is a wonderfully evocative demonstration of something often discounted—how important law and lawyers were, and remain, in realizing the promise of full equality for all citizens.”—Kenneth W. Mack, author of Representing the Race While bus boycotts, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience were the engine of the civil rights movement, the law was a primary context. Here, in their own voices, twenty-six lawyers reveal the abuses they endured and the barriers they broke as they fought for civil rights. These eyewitness accounts provide unique windows into some of the most dramatic moments in civil rights history. KENT SPRIGGS, author of the two-volume Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, has been a civil rights lawyer for fifty-two years. He practices in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was a city commissioner and mayor.
These Truly Are the Brave An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship
Edited by A YĘMISI JIMOH and FRANÇOISE N. HAMLIN “These primary source documents—poems, pamphlets, oral histories—speak to the black experience of war and citizenship.” —Library Journal “[An] impressive array of readings. . . . This is a volume for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of responses to war and citizenship in African American literary history.”—Choice “This anthology is the first of its kind, assembling an impressive array of African American voices on war and citizenship from the colonial period to the present. . . . No other anthology provides such a comprehensive insight into the crucial nexus between war, race, and nation in black history and literature.”—American Literary History “Provides a ready and accessible means to access the frustrations of African Americans trying to reconcile war, American values, and their own place within a racial hierarchy. The expanse of the anthology’s selections attests to the pervasive nature of the issue in African American thought.”—H-Net These Truly Are the Brave offers perspectives on war, national loyalty, and freedom from a sweeping range of writers including Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Natasha Trethewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Vievee Francis, Michael S. Harper, Ann Petry, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more. A YĘMISI JIMOH is professor of African American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living In Paradox. FRANÇOISE N. HAMLIN is associate professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University and the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II.
HISTORY/LAW/CIVIL RIGHTS
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September 440 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | Illus.
October 584 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | Illus.
(Printed Case ISBN 978-0-8130-5432-2 | © 2017)
(Printed Case ISBN 978-0-8130-6022-4 | © 2015)
ISBN 978-0-8130-6404-8 | Paper $30.00s
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