My father and Atticus Finch
Subtitle: a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama
By: Joseph Madison Beck
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780393285826
Subjects: Defense (Criminal procedure); Race relations; History; Criminal defense lawyers; Biography; Trials (Rape)
Description: "As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories--when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a black man charged with raping a white woman. Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, a trial that was much publicized when Harper Lee was twelve years old"--Dust jacket flap.