Black in Selma : the uncommon life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
by Chestnut, J. L.
|Format:||Print Book 1991|
|Availability:||Available at 1 Library 1 of 1 copy|
On March 7,1965, George Wallace lined a bridge in Selma with statetroopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery. Among those present was 34-year-old lawyer, J. L. Chestnut, a brilliant, passionate and unflinchingly tenacious champion of a people and a cause. Black in Selma is his story. Candid and thoroughly engrossing . . .--San Francisco Chronicle. (Anchor)
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Chestnut, J. L.
African American lawyers -- Alabama -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- History.
|Publisher|| New York :Anchor Books,1991
|Edition||1st Anchor books ed.|
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.
xiii, 431 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm