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Benjamin Crump firmly believes in the Constitution and its legal protections—that civil rights covers all Americans, not just those privileged by race, wealth, or pedigree. A fierce and passionate advocate, he has devoted his career to fighting for justice for America’s marginalized. Open Season is his inspiring journey working on some of the most egregious cases that have shocked the nation, including those of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. Shaped by his first-hand experience handling civil litigation matters in state and federal courts throughout the country, Open Season reveals the often hidden and systemic injustices minorities face, and illuminates how discrimination in the courthouse devastates real families and communities. Chronicling some of his most memorable legal battles, this brilliant litigator shockingly makes clear how our system is devised for certain people to lose and others to win, and, using evidence and facts, exposes how it is legal to harm—with the intent to destroy—people of color. Crump offers a cogent analysis of legal tenets, including the 13th Amendment, the 1951 Genocide Petition to the United Nations, and controversial Stand Your Ground laws. He compares how race detrimentally influences sentencing, and reveals how police unions protect officers who shoot unarmed civilians. He also makes clear how budget cuts for education, the proliferation of guns, and high unemployment rates all directly contribute to higher crime rates. America must live up to its promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally, Crump maintains. Thoughtful, well-reasoned, and powerfully persuasive, Open Season details one man's life mission preserving the hard-won justice for all.

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&#8220Benjamin Crump's work - his research, his voice, his fight - is paramount to the black community. Open Season must occupy a dominant place in the classroom, in libraries, in the workplace, in police training programs. Crump's masterful voice and expertise of America's corrupt power structures will alter the hierarchy by which we dangerously abide. -- <p ><strong>-</strong>Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>When They Call You a Terrorist<strong> </strong></em> &#8220Ben Crump offers a deft and unflinching expose on America's treatment of people of color. He charges America to live up to its status as the great &#8220melting pot by protecting and serving all of its citizens. His passionate voice lifts the true stories of wronged Americans off of the page and emblazoned them onto our hearts. A mouth-gaping read from one of the most steadfast champions for justice of our time. -- <p > <strong>-</strong>Kenya Barris, creator of <em>Black-ish</em> Ben Crump is a warrior on the front lines of the war for social justice. These notes from the legal battlefield of civil rights pushes us beyond lazy presumptions of where we are as a society to the hard truths of what we have achieved and how far we still have to go. -- <p ><strong>-</strong>Reginald Hudlin, writer, director, and producer

Benjamin Crump's work - his research, his voice, his fight - is paramount to the black community. Open Season must occupy a dominant place in the classroom, in libraries, in the workplace, in police training programs. Crump's masterful voice and expertise of America's corrupt power structures will alter the hierarchy by which we dangerously abide. -- <p class= MsoNormal style= mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:200% ><strong><span style= font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family: Times New Roman ,serif >-</span></strong><span style= font-size:12.0pt;line- Ben Crump offers a deft and unflinching expose on America's treatment of people of color. He charges America to live up to its status as the great melting pot by protecting and serving all of its citizens. His passionate voice lifts the true stories of wronged Americans off of the page and emblazoned them onto our hearts. A mouth-gaping read from one of the most steadfast champions for justice of our time. -- <p class= MsoNormal style= line-height:200% ><span style= font-size:12.0pt; line-height:200%;font-family: Times New Roman ,serif > <strong>-</strong>Kenya Barris, creator of <em>Black-ish<o:p></o:p></em></span> Ben Crump is a warrior on the front lines of the war for social justice. These notes from the legal battlefield of civil rights pushes us beyond lazy presumptions of where we are as a society to the hard truths of what we have achieved and how far we still have to go. -- <p class= MsoNormal style= line-height:200% ><strong><span style= font-size:12.0pt; line-height:200%;font-family: Times New Roman ,serif >-</span></strong><span style= font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family: Times New Roman ,s

&#8220Benjamin Crump's work - his research, his voice, his fight - is paramount to the black community. Open Season must occupy a dominant place in the classroom, in libraries, in the workplace, in police training programs. Crump's masterful voice and expertise of America's corrupt power structures will alter the hierarchy by which we dangerously abide. -- Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>When They Call You a Terrorist<strong> </strong></em> &#8220Ben Crump offers a deft and unflinching expose on America's treatment of people of color. He charges America to live up to its status as the great &#8220melting pot by protecting and serving all of its citizens. His passionate voice lifts the true stories of wronged Americans off of the page and emblazoned them onto our hearts. A mouth-gaping read from one of the most steadfast champions for justice of our time. -- Kenya Barris, creator of <em>Black-ish</em> &#8220There is much more to inequality and discrimination than we know, and Crump will open your eyes. Pay attention. -- <em>Kirkus Reviews </em><strong>(starred review)</strong> . . . alarming yet credible account. -- <em>Publishers Weekly</em> . . . deeply disturbing account of how the justice system is used to maintain a system of inequality and justify the murder of black Americans. -- Book Riot Ben Crump is a warrior on the front lines of the war for social justice. These notes from the legal battlefield of civil rights pushes us beyond lazy presumptions of where we are as a society to the hard truths of what we have achieved and how far we still have to go. -- Reginald Hudlin, writer, director, and producer

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Through a steadfast dedication to justice and service, renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump has established himself as one of the nation’s foremost lawyers and advocates for social justice. He has worked on some of the most high-profile cases in the U.S., representing the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Stephon Clark, among others. He has been nationally recognized as the 2014 NNPA Newsmaker of the Year, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers, and Ebony Magazine Power 100 Most Influential African Americans. In 2016, he was designated as an Honorary Fellow by the University of Pennsylvania College of Law. He is the founder and principal owner of Ben Crump Law.

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