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Carl Maxey : a fighting life
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Title
Carl Maxey : a fighting life / Jim Kershner.
ISBN
9780295988467 (hardback : alk. paper)
0295988460 (hardback : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xi, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
"A V Ethel Willis White book."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254) and index.
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."
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