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Author:
Mills, Martha A., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015034495
Title:
Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois / The Hon. Martha A. Mills (Ret.).
Publisher:
ABASection of Litigation,
Copyright Date:
©2015
Description:
xix, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Mills, Martha A.
Civil rights lawyers--United States--Biography.
Judges--Illinois--Biography.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
Biographies.
Other Authors:
American Bar Association. Section of Litigation, sponsoring body. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79135067
Notes:
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?
ISBN:
1634251318
9781634251310
OCLC:
(OCoLC)910664533
LCCN:
2015021645
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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