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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael MeltsnerPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780813926957ISBN 10: 0813926955 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 30 October 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsMichael 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 familiar with the people and controversies he recalls.--Stephen B. Bright, Director, Southern Center for Human Rights <p>Michael Meltsner has performed a great public service byrecalling from his perspective as a lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund howlawyers helped bring about social change during the civil rights movement of the1960s. This memoir will be of great interest to a generation unfamiliar with thatremarkable time in American history, as well as to those familiar with the peopleand controversies he recalls.--Stephen B. Bright, Director, Southern Center for Human Rights <p>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 familiar with the people and controversies he recalls.--Stephen B. Bright, Director, Southern Center for Human Rights 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 familiar with the people and controversies he recalls.</p>--Stephen B. Bright, Director, Southern Center for Human Rights Author InformationMichael 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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