A Time to Speak

The Story of a Young American Lawyer's Struggle for His City--And Himself
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8173-6048-1
Verlag: University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march towards racial justice in the South, and the nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Morgan Jr. (1930–2009) was a pivotal figure in many of the key legal battles for civil rights and civil liberties in the 1960s and 1970s, successfully arguing many of his most noteworthy victories before the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to representing key figures in the Civil Rights movement itself, he argued on behalf of free speech rights for Vietnam War soldiers and protestors alike and led the ACLU’s campaign for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. He is the author of One Man, One Voice.

Senator Doug Jones is a lifelong resident of Alabama and a graduate of the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law. In 2017, Jones was elected to represent Alabama in the US Senate. He is from US attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and in this role he reopened and successfully prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members for their roles in in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.