Jim Crow and Me: Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer

by Solomon S. Seay Jr., John Franklin (Foreword), Delores Boyd (Primary Contributor)

Civil rights lawyer Solomon S. Seay, Jr. chronicles both heartening and heartbreaking episodes of his first-hand struggle to achieve the actualization of civil rights. Tempered with wit and told with endearing humility, Seay’s memoir Jim Crow and Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer gives one pause for both cultural and personal reflection. With an eloquence befitting one of Alabama’s most celebrated attorneys, Seay manages to not only relay his personal struggles with much fervor and introspection, but to acknowledge, in each brief piece, the greater societal struggle in which his story is necessarily framed. Jim Crow and Me is more than just a memoir of one man’s battle against injustice―it is an accessible testament to the precarious battle against civil injustice that continues even today.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Kathryn Wingard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did not finish. Was a book in airbnb. Would be good for young readers..middle school? As it is short stories that are not as intense as some

[Bill Bitner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommended to me by his nephew Cameron Seay. Chapters are each like small stories. Found reading each chapter and then reflecting on it was best way to take it all in.