BLACK IN SELMA, THE UNCOMMON LIFE OF J.L. CHESTNUT: POLITICS AND POWER IN A SMALL AMERICAN TOWN by J.L. Chestnut, Jr. and Julia Cass
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Black in Selma, The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr: Politics and Power in a Small American Town by J.L. Chestnut, Jr. and Julia Cass
On March 7, 1965, George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, lined the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma with state troopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery for the black vote. Among those present was a thirty-four-year-old lawyer, J.L. Chestnut, Jr., the only black lawyer in Selma at that time, a man whose own struggle both parallels and exemplifies the growth of the civil rights movement since the early sixties. Journalist Julia Cass met Chestnut while covering the South for the Philadelphia Inquirer and was deeply struck not only by the representative nature of his story, but by his deeply perceptive reading of the realities of power and politics in the South. The result of their collaboration is Black in Selma, J.L. Chestnut, Jr.'s extraordinary autobiography.
J.L. Chestnut grew up in an era when blacks in Alabama had virtually no legal rights, when they were subjected to violence and discrimination by the police, the courts, and the state. He fought on the front lines of the battles for civil rights legislation, alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, and many others, staying on in his hometown and working on the grass-roots level to overcome the difficult legacy of Southern segregation and prejudice in the streets, in the courts, and in the political arena. With the tenacity of a trained trial lawyer and the warmth of the oral historian, J.L. Chestnut recalls his American struggle in its entirety -- from the gambling halls and back-yard sandlots of his youth to the Dallas County Courthouse, where he has waged the great battles of his career. Black in Selma draws a vivid portrait of a small American town experiencing a revolution, through the eyes of one of its major catalysts for progress. Challenging, engrossing, and inspiring, it evokes brilliantly the dynamics of struggle and change that have characterized this all-important chapter in America's history.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1990
This is a USED BOOK in Like New Condition. The dust wrapper is also in Like New condition.
On March 7, 1965, George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, lined the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma with state troopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery for the black vote. Among those present was a thirty-four-year-old lawyer, J.L. Chestnut, Jr., the only black lawyer in Selma at that time, a man whose own struggle both parallels and exemplifies the growth of the civil rights movement since the early sixties. Journalist Julia Cass met Chestnut while covering the South for the Philadelphia Inquirer and was deeply struck not only by the representative nature of his story, but by his deeply perceptive reading of the realities of power and politics in the South. The result of their collaboration is Black in Selma, J.L. Chestnut, Jr.'s extraordinary autobiography.
J.L. Chestnut grew up in an era when blacks in Alabama had virtually no legal rights, when they were subjected to violence and discrimination by the police, the courts, and the state. He fought on the front lines of the battles for civil rights legislation, alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, and many others, staying on in his hometown and working on the grass-roots level to overcome the difficult legacy of Southern segregation and prejudice in the streets, in the courts, and in the political arena. With the tenacity of a trained trial lawyer and the warmth of the oral historian, J.L. Chestnut recalls his American struggle in its entirety -- from the gambling halls and back-yard sandlots of his youth to the Dallas County Courthouse, where he has waged the great battles of his career. Black in Selma draws a vivid portrait of a small American town experiencing a revolution, through the eyes of one of its major catalysts for progress. Challenging, engrossing, and inspiring, it evokes brilliantly the dynamics of struggle and change that have characterized this all-important chapter in America's history.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1990
This is a USED BOOK in Like New Condition. The dust wrapper is also in Like New condition.
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