The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786714247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this historic book, Taylor recalls the triumphs, setbacks, and ongoing challenges in the battle for civil rights from his own unique and influential perspective. The civil rights movement has been the passion of our times since Brown v. From the tireless struggle to enforce the desegregation of public schools to recent victories protecting the interests of minority schoolchildren in St. In this inspiring insider's account, Taylor discusses civil rights policy over the decades, while also chronicling his encounters with presidents, other legislators, his work with civil rights leaders, and his friendships with the people he has met in the movement. The Passion of My Times is a significant contribution to the literature of the movement and one that promises to energize a new generation of activists.. Louis, Taylor has influenced policymakers across the political spectrum. He has written landmark pieces of legislation, lobbied them through Congress, and developed strategies that have led to significant social change. Board of Education. Taylor, a recent Yale Law School graduate, joined Thurgood Marshall's NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he would later write the victorious 1958 Supreme Court brief that forced Little Rock, Arkansas schools to desegregate. In 1954, William L
He received the first Thurgood Marshall Award conferred by the District of Columbia Bar in 1993 and in 2001 received the Hubert H. Humphrey Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He founded and directed the Center for National Policy Review, has long been a leader of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a
From Publishers Weekly Shortly after his 1954 graduation from Yale Law School, Taylor found his calling: first as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, later as staff director of the U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach provoked into calling Taylor a "cocksucker"), the tone is matter-of-fact. His lucid memoir offers an up-close look at the nuts-and-bolts work (collecting data, pushing legislation, securing effective administration of law and policy) behind major moments in the Civil Rights movement and its aftermath. Commission on Civil Rights (1965&nd
The bible of modern civil rights advcocy! W. P. McCrone William Taylor is a gifted writer and one of the great civil rights lawyers of our time. His leadership/insider view of the multiple dimensions of civil rights advocacy [data and testimony collection, Congressional hearings, the courts, regulation enforcement, executive orders, judicial appointment fights, etc.]is must reading for all, particularly people of color, women, people with disabilities, a