Deep delta justice : a black teen, his lawyer, and their groundbreaking battle for civil rights in the South / Matthew Van Meter.
Material type: SoundPublisher: [Ashland] : Little, Brown & Company, 2020Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 38 min., 36 sec.)) : digitalContent type:- spoken word
- computer
- online resource
- 9781549132339
- 1549132334
- African American youth -- Civil rights -- Louisiana
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana
- Civil rights -- Louisiana
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Louisiana
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Civil rights
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Race relations
- Louisiana
- Southern States
- 323.4/09763 23
- KFL411.5.A34 V36 2020ab
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Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed August 5, 2020).
Read by Brad sanders.
The unforgettable story of one lawyer and his defendant who together changed American law during the height of the Civil Rights eraIn 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight between a group of four white kids and two of Gary's own cousins. After putting his hand on the arm of one of the white children, Duncan was arrested for assault. A member of the local branch of the NAACP, Duncan used his contacts to reach Richard Sobol, a 29-year-old born and bred New Yorker working that summer in a black firm ("the most radical law firm") in New Orleans, to represent him. In this powerful work of character-driven history that benefits from the author's deep understanding of the law, Van Meter brings alive how one court case changed the course of justice in the South, and eventually the entire country. The events that Gary Duncan set in motion brought to an end a form of injustice -- denial of trial by jury-- that led to the incarceration of thousands of poor and mostly black Americans. Duncan vs. Louisiana changed America, but before it did it changed the lives of the people who litigated it.