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Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois
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- Creator
- The Hon. Martha A. Mills (Ret.)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xix, 356 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781634251310, 1634251318
- OCLC
- ocn910664533
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : I was there : the murder of Ben Brown -- 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?