A Celebration of the New Pacific McGeorge Legal Studies Center
September 08, 2011
The Faculty Development Committee, Asian/Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Latino/a Law Students Association (LLSA), and Middle Eastern/South Asian Association (MESAA) present: Judge Gordon A. Martin, Jr. Author of "Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote."
"Count Them One by One" is a comprehensive account written by one of the Justice Department's trial attorneys, of the groundbreaking case by the United States Justice Department against Forrest County, Mississippi's voting registrar Theon Lynd. United States v. Lynd was the first trial that resulted in the conviction of a Southern registrar for contempt of court. The book is an impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage, oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped liberty and the south.
Judge Martin will be introduced by Pacific McGeorge Professor Brian Landsberg Author of "Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice" and "Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
Date and Time
Sept. 8, 2011 at noon.
Location
Pacific McGeorge Legal Studies Center Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Grand Salon
For more information
Contact Professor Ruth Jones, Associate Dean for Scholarship.