[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DEES, Morris; Steve Fiffer

A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. First Edition. First Printing, with solicitation letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth backstrip over tan paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],355,[1]pp; 8pp. black and white photograph (halftones) inserted. Generic SPLC sticker bearing Dee's printed signature mounted to front endpaper. Small ink dot to right edge of textblock, else Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $24.95) with creases at spine panel, and trivial surface wear; Near Fine.

Memoir by noted civil rights lawyer and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees, scourge of the KKK and other hate groups, who among his many accomplishments successfully sued and bankrupted the United Klans of America in 1981, after the lynching of Michael Donald in Alabama. "Morris gives behind-the-scenes accounts of the most significant case ever undertaken by the Center -- Beulah Mae Donald v. United Klans of America. In 1981, a young black man named Michael Donald was found hung from a tree in Mobile, Alabama... After the criminal trial in which a Klan member, Henry Hays, was convicted of murdering Michael Donald, the Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of his bereaved mother seeking $10 million in damages from the Klan" (from SPLC letter). [82609].

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