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Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois
- Title
- Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois / the Hon. Martha A. Mills (Ret.).
- Author
- Mills, Martha A.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : ABA, Section of Litigation, [2015]
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- Additional Authors
- American Bar Association. Section of Litigation, sponsoring body.
- Description
- xix, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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?
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1643
- ISBN
- 9781634251310
- 1634251318
- LCCN
- 2015021645
- OCLC
- 910664533
- Author
- Mills, Martha A., author.
- Title
- Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois / the Hon. Martha A. Mills (Ret.).
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : ABA, Section of Litigation, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- NON-RET. PERSONAL NARRATIVE. INCL. B&W ILLUS.
- Added Author
- American Bar Association. Section of Litigation, sponsoring body.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1643