Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer

by Seay, Solomon S., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781588381750
• ISBN10: 1588381757
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-30
• Publisher: John F Blair Pub

Summary

Seay's memoir takes a different tack from most civil rights legal autobiographies: in a series of compact, powerful vignettes, he reveals dramatic courtroom moments; the complex personalities of segregation's victims, heroes, and oppressors; and the emotional highs and lows of using the law to seek justice where it too often had been an empty promise.In crisp, often elegant prose, Seay paints pictures of a Southern way of life that thankfully has been dismantled, with much of the dismantling by his own hands.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. XI
Preface	p. XIV
Introduction	p. XVII
Inspiration for the Battlefield
The Whale I Did Not See	p. 5
Miss Arter's Pledge of Allegiance	p. 8
Jim Crow's Privileges
Passing the Bar	p. 11
They Must Have Been Brothers	p. 14
Biding Time at The Elite	p. 21
Bye Bye Blackbird	p. 23
The Color of Convenience	p. 29
Liberty and Justice For Those Who Got the Guts To Grab It
Saving PeeWee	p. 33
Facing Fear	p. 40
A Promise Kept	p. 45
I Cried Real Tears	p. 48
A Widow's Might	p. 54
Fools Profit from Their Own Mistakes	p. 57
Fearless Freedom Fighters
The Turkey Bone Warriors	p. 63
Cottonreader and the Chinaberry Tree	p. 69
Bert & Dan ... and the Ku Klux Klan	p. 74
The Other Side of the Battle	p. 79
Freedom Riders and a Slow Delivery	p. 82
Marengo County	p. 89
All In the Family
What's In a Name?	p. 101
Plowing with Pride	p. 104
Never a Mumbling Word	p. 108
Flute Lips	p. 110
The Lake House	p. 116
Judging the Journey
Reputation	p. 123
Tolerated Injustice	p. 129
Notes	p. 134
Index	p. 148
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