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Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr.
Black in Selma The Uncommon Life of J L Chestnut Jr
Author: J. L. Chestnut Jr, Julia Cass
A civil rights classic returns to print. — On March 7, 1965, George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, lined the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma with state troopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery for the black vote. Among those present was a thirty-four-year-old lawyer, J. L. Chestnut, Jr., the only black lawyer in Selma at that time, a m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374114046
ISBN-10: 0374114048
Publication Date: 7/1990
Pages: 431
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
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Good portrayal of what happened when people were kept from their rights as a citizen.


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