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Cargando... Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life (V Ethel Willis White Books)por Jim Kershner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Kershner knew his subject personally, left no stone unturned in his research, and brought to life a Spokane icon. For Spokanites, it is a page turner. Carl Maxey lived a life that would have flattened a person of normal strength. He was fascinating, complex and well worth the read. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Carl Maxey was, in his own words, ?a guy who started from scratch - black scratch.? He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other ?colored? orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer at Gonzaga University, and then as eastern Washington's first prominent black lawyer and a renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog. During the tumultuous civil rights and Vietnam War eras, Carl Maxey fought to break down color barriers in his hometown of Spokane and throughout the nation. As a defense lawyer, he made national headlines working on lurid murder cases and war-protest trials, including the notorious Seattle Seven trial. He even took his commitment to justice and antiwar causes to the political arena, running for the U.S. Senate against powerhouse senator Henry M. Jackson. In Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, Jim Kershner explores the sources of Maxey's passions as well as the price he ultimately paid for his struggles. The result is a moving portrait of a man called a ?Type-A Gandhi? by the New York Times, whose own personal misfortune spurred his lifelong, tireless crusade against injustice. A V Ethel Willis White Book No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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