V. Ethel Willis White Books
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V. Ethel Willis White Books

A Fighting Life

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V. Ethel Willis White Books

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.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780295800394
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. 1 - An Orphan's Fire
  8. 2 - A Father in Black Robes
  9. 3 - The Count and the Club
  10. 4 - Walking Right into Trouble
  11. 5 - King Carl Wins the Crown
  12. 6 - Eastern Washington's First Black Lawyer
  13. 7 - Stirrings from the South
  14. 8 - The Haircut Uproar and a Perfunctory Execution
  15. 9 - Freedom Summer in the Tail End of America
  16. 10 - "The Sickness of Our Nation"
  17. 11 - A Right Hook to Scoop Jackson
  18. 12 - The Seattle Seven Circus
  19. 13 - The Maxey Temper
  20. 14 - Ruth Coe's Greek Tragedy
  21. 15 - "No Goddamned Award"
  22. 16 - "Living through All This B.S."
  23. 17 - Type-A Gandhi
  24. Notes on Sources
  25. Index