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

by William L. Taylor

Book Overview

In 1954, William L. Taylor, a recent Yale Law School graduate, joined Thurgood Marshall's NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he would later write the victorious 1958 Supreme Court brief that forced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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.