There When We Needed Him
Subtitle: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press; The University of Arkansas Press
Published: September 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781557288486
Subjects: Biography: general; Black studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Cultural Heritage; General; Lawyers & Judges; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; African American lawyers; Arkansas; Biography; Civil rights movements; History
Description: "Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he "devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people." There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas School of Law and took him to the highest levels of business and government."--Jacket.