My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama

by Joseph Madison Beck

Book Overview

As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories--when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a black man charged with raping a white woman.

Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, a trial that was much publicized when Harper Lee was twelve years old.

On the day of Foster Beck's client's arrest, the leading local newspaper reported, under a page-one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393285820
• ISBN13: 9780393285826
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.2"