Title: Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois /
Authors: Mills, Martha A.,; American Bar Association.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Mills, Martha A.; Civil rights lawyers United States Biography.; Judges Illinois Biography.; Civil rights movements United States History
Contents: Independence, principles, and arrival -- Where are all the lawyers? Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law -- Voting rights I : a citizen's most basic leverage -- voting power -- Voting rights II : voter registration efforts and unseating the regulars -- Voting rights III : the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Mississippi Plan, Phase II -- Voting rights IV : voter education, elections, problems, and victories -- My month as a volunteer : the first week -- My month as a volunteer : walking the line -- Grenada -- My month as a volunteer : half a world -- My month as a volunteer : finishing out the month -- Moving day -- The Mississippi way : a potpourri -- First major trial : Robert Earl Harris -- Foreign lawyers -- Ben Chester White -- The "Mississippi burning" judge -- Friends and the times -- And then there were the children -- A strum of hope for one boy -- Assorted cases and stories -- I am arrested -- Major legal breakthrough -- Charles Evers, Jackson awakes, and my last few months in Mississippi -- Cairo : ruins of racism -- So, where have we been, and where are we going?