Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Lawyers Guild Review
Author: Lawyers Guild Review
Author: Report on the National Lawyers Guild, Legal Bulwark of the Communist Party
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Lawyers Guild Review
Author: Writing to Save a Life
Author: John Edgar WidemanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time. In 1955, Emmett Till, aged fourteen, traveled from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. Several weeks later he returned, dead; allegedly he whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie, wanted the world to see what had been done to her son. She chose to leave his casket open. Images of her brutalized boy were published widely. While Emmett's story is known, there's a dark side note that's rarely mentioned. Ten years earlier, Emmett's father was executed by the Army for rape and murder. In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Wideman brings extraordinary insight and a haunting intimacy to this devastating story. An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is completely original in its delivery--an engaging and enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons. Wideman turns seventy-five this year, and he brings the force of his substantial intellect and experience to this beautiful, stirring book, his first nonfiction in fifteen years.
Lawyers and the Promotion of Justice
Author: National Lawyers Guild
Author: National Lawyers GuildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Unequal Justice
Author: Jerold S. AuerbachPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199728925
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Auerbach here focuses on the elite nature of the profession, examining its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempts to exclude participation by minorities.
National Lawyers Guild Quarterly
Author: National Lawyers GuildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The People’s Lawyer
Author: Albert RubenPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583672389
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending therights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Centerfor Constitutional Rights (CCR) has not played a central role,and yet few people have ever heard of it. Whether defendingthe rights of black people in the South, opponents of the war inVietnam and victims of torture worldwide, or fighting illegalactions of the U.S. government, the CCR has stood ready totake on all comers, regardless of their power and wealth. Whenthe United States declared that the Constitution did not applyto detainees at Guantanamo, the CCR waded fearlessly intobattle, its Legal Director declaring, “My job is to defend theConstitution from its enemies. Its main enemies right now arethe Justice Department and the White House.” In this first-ever comprehensive history of one of the most important legal organizations in the United States, the Center forConstitutional Rights, Albert Ruben shows us exactly what itmeans to defend the Constitution. He examines the innovativetactics of the CCR, the ways in which a radical organization isbuilt and nurtured, and the impact that the CCR has had onour very conception of the law. This book is a must-read notonly for lawyers, but for all the rest of us who may one day findour rights in jeopardy.