Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life
Author:   Jim Kershner (Columnist and writer)
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
ISBN:  

9780295992310


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   27 November 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life


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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

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Author:   Jim Kershner (Columnist and writer)
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780295992310


ISBN 10:   029599231
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   27 November 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Preface and Acknowledgments 1. An Orphan's Fire 2. A Father in Black Robes 3. The Count and the Club 4. Walking Right into Trouble 5. King Carl Wins the Crown 6. Eastern Washington's First Black Lawyer 7. Stirrings from the South 8. The Haircut Uproar and a Perfunctory Execution 9. Freedom Summer in the Tail End of America 10. ""The Sickness of Our Nation"" 11. A Right Hook to Scoop Jackson 12. The Seattle Seven Circus 13. The Maxey Temper 14. Ruth Coe's Greek Tragedy 15. ""No Goddamned Award"" 16. ""Living through All This B.S."" 17. Type-A Gandhi Notes on Sources Index"

Reviews

Reads like a modern Dickens tale. Law and Politics An essential biography of one city's civil rights hero, wonderfully written and impeccably researched. Jess Walter, author of The Zero


""Reads like a modern Dickens tale."" Law and Politics ""An essential biography of one city's civil rights hero, wonderfully written and impeccably researched."" Jess Walter, author of The Zero


"""Reads like a modern Dickens tale."" Law and Politics ""An essential biography of one city's civil rights hero, wonderfully written and impeccably researched."" Jess Walter, author of The Zero"


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Jim Kershner is a journalist for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane.

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