Jim Crow and Me : Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer

Civil rights lawyer Solomon S. Seay, Jr. chronicles both heartening and heartbreaking episodes of his first-hand struggle to achieve the actualization of civil rights. Tempered with wit and told with endearing humility, Seay's memoir Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer gives one pause for both cultural and personal reflection. With an eloquence befitting one of Alabama's most celebrated attorneys, Seay manages to not only relay his personal struggles with much fervor and introspection, but to acknowledge, in each brief piece, the greater societal struggle in which his story is necessarily framed. Jim Crow and Me is more than just a memoir of one man's battle against injustice—it is an accessible testament to the precarious battle against civil injustice that continues even today. Part One: Inspiration For The Battlefield. The Whale I Did Not See -- Miss Arter's Pledge Of Allegiance -- Part Two: Jim Crow's Privileges. Passing The Bar -- They Must Have Been Brothers -- Biding Time At The Elite -- Bye Bye Blackbird -- The Color Of Convenience -- Part Three: Liberty And Justice For Those Who Got The Guts To Grab It. Save Peewee -- Facing Fear -- A Promise Kept -- I Cried Real Tears -- A Widow's Might -- Fools Profit From Their Own Mistakes -- Part Four: Fearless Freedom Fighters. The Turkey Bone Warriors -- Cottonreader And The Chinaberry Tree -- Bert & Dan... And The Ku Klux Klan -- The Other Side Of The Battle -- Freedom Riders And Slow Delivery -- Marengo County -- Part Five: All In The Family. What's In A Name? -- Plowing With Pride -- Never A Mumbling Word -- Flute Lips -- The Lake House -- Part Six: Judging The Journey. Reputation -- Tolerated Injustice. Solomon S. Seay, Jr. ; With Delores R. Boyd ; Foreword By John Hope Franklin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [134]-147) And Index.