The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement

by William L. Taylor

Book Overview

Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a leading civil rights advocate and author of the historic Supreme Court brief recounts the triumphs, tragedies, setbacks, and continuing challenges of the civil rights movement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786714247
• ISBN13: 9780786714247
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The bible of modern civil rights advcocy!

William Taylor is a gifted writer and one of the great civil rights lawyers of our time. His leadership/insider view of the multiple dimensions of civil rights advocacy [data and testimony collection, Congressional hearings, the courts, regulation enforcement, executive orders, judicial appointment fights, etc.]is must reading for all, particularly people of color, women, people with disabilities, and others who still aspire to justice and the American dream. Bill McCrone, Ph.D., J.D.