Black In Selma The Uncommon Life Of J. L. Chestnut, Jr.
Author: J. L. Chestnut Jr.; Julia Cass
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: 9780374114046
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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: 01 August 1990
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: J. L. Chestnut Jr.; Julia Cass
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VG in VG dust jacket.
Description
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)