The people's lawyers
By: Marlise James.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Lawyers -- United States
Table of contents: title: Rights lawyers: Roger Baldwin and the early years of the American Civil Liberties Union. Leonard Boudin and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Mel Wulf and the new ACLU. Anthony Amsterdam: a practicing civil libertarian law professor. Poverty rights lawyers. Consumer rights lawyers.; title: Radical lawyers: New York City. Newark, New Jersey. Chicago, Illinois. Detroit, Michigan. Los Angeles, California. San Francisco, California. The South.; title: Second nation lawyers: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, inc. The National Conference of Black Lawyers. Sheila Okpaku and the Community Law Office. C. B. King, a Black lawyer in the South. Charles Garry, chief defense counsel, the Black Panther Party. D'Army Bailey, Berkeley city councilman. Jerome Cohen, attorney, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. Oscar Acosta and the Chicano movement. The Native American Rights Fund.