Lawyer, activist, judge
Subtitle: fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois
By: the Hon. Martha A. Mills (Ret.).
Contributors: American Bar Association. Section of Litigation
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781634251310
Subjects: Civil rights lawyers; Judges; Civil rights movements; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Independence, principles, and arrival; title: Where are all the lawyers? Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law; title: Voting rights I : a citizen's most basic leverage; title: voting power; title: Voting rights II : voter registration efforts and unseating the regulars; title: Voting rights III : the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Mississippi Plan, Phase II; title: Voting rights IV : voter education, elections, problems, and victories; title: My month as a volunteer : the first week; title: My month as a volunteer : walking the line; title: Grenada; title: My month as a volunteer : half a world; title: My month as a volunteer : finishing out the month; title: Moving day; title: The Mississippi way : a potpourri; title: First major trial : Robert Earl Harris; title: Foreign lawyers; title: Ben Chester White; title: The "Mississippi burning" judge; title: Friends and the times; title: And then there were the children; title: A strum of hope for one boy; title: Assorted cases and stories; title: I am arrested; title: Major legal breakthrough; title: Charles Evers, Jackson awakes, and my last few months in Mississippi; title: Cairo : ruins of racism; title: So, where have we been, and where are we going?