Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Kershner, Jim, 1953-

Title Carl Maxey : a fighting life / Jim Kershner
Edition 1st ed
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 264 p., [16] p. of plates )
Contents An orphan's fire -- A father in black robes -- The count and the club -- Walking right into trouble -- King Carl wins the crown -- Eastern Washington's first black lawyer -- Stirrings from the south -- The haircut uproar and a perfunctory execution -- Freedom summer in the tail end of America -- "The sickness of our nation" -- A right hook to scoop Jackson -- The Seattle seven circus -- The Maxey temper -- Ruth Coe's greek tragedy -- "No goddamned award" -- "Living through all this b.s." -- Type-A Gandhi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Maxey, Carl, 1924-1997.
SUBJECT Maxey, Carl, 1924-1997 fast
Subject African American lawyers -- Washington (State) -- Spokane -- Biography
Civil rights workers -- Washington (State) -- Spokane -- Biography
Boxers (Sports) -- Washington (State) -- Spokane -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
LAW -- Legal History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
African American lawyers
Boxers (Sports)
Civil rights workers
Jurist
Washington (State) -- Spokane
USA
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694509
ISBN 9780295800394
0295800399