Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote - Rilegato

Martin, Gordon A., Jr.

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ISBN 10: 1604737891 ISBN 13: 9781604737899

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2010

Riassunto

Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls. United States v. Lynd was the first trial that resulted in the conviction of a southern registrar for contempt of court. The case served as a model for other challenges to voter discrimination in the South, and was an important influence in shaping the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Count Them One by One is a comprehensive account of the groundbreaking case written by one of the Justice Department's trial attorneys. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., then a newly-minted lawyer, traveled to Hattiesburg from Washington to help shape the federal case against Lynd. He met with and prepared the government's sixteen black witnesses who had been refused registration, found white witnesses, and was one of the lawyers during the trial.

Decades later, Martin returned to Mississippi and interviewed the still-living witnesses, their children, and friends. Martin intertwines these current reflections with commentary about the case itself. The result is an impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage, oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped liberty and the South.

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L'autore:

A former First Assistant United States Attorney and urban trial judge, Gordon A. Martin, Jr., is adjunct professor of law at New England Law Boston. His work has been published in Boston's newspapers, the Globe and the Herald, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, various law reviews, and other periodicals.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

The personal account of a community and a lawyer united to battle one of the most recalcitrant bastions of resistance to civil rights

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• Editore: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1604737891
• ISBN 13: 9781604737899
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272