A Moment in Memphis: A Reluctant Southern White Boy Becomes a Civil Rights Lawyer and Goes North

by Oliver Fowlkes

Book Overview

This is the story of a Southern White boy growing up in segregated Mobile and his struggle to escape. In Part One the boy, a newly minted ACLU lawyer in Memphis, encounters racism while seeking to obtain justice for a Black youth beaten by police after Dr. King's assassination in 1968. When threats against his family become oppressive, he flees to the North hoping to carry on his quest for justice. Part Two chronicles his attempts in Massachusetts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588384659
• ISBN13: 9781588384652
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"