The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer

by Michael Meltsner

Book Overview

"It was not until I arrived at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that I learned my profession, how to work with colleagues and clients, and how it might feel to grow up in the law." So begins Michael Meltsner's vivid account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates he became such a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. Part memoir...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925010
• ISBN13: 9780813925011
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"