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Personal Verdict: A Civil Rights Novel
Personal Verdict: A Civil Rights Novel
Personal Verdict: A Civil Rights Novel
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College freshman Jeff Martindales life begins changing almost the instant he meets Rev. Isiah Booker, a former Temple University halfback now active in the nascent Civil Rights Movement. Jeff is from a nearly all-white, small northern Michigan town. Isiahs a Philadelphian, 12 years older and black. Their chance meeting at a casual party on the University of Michigan campus grows from a mutual interest in fly-fishing to full-fledged friendship blended with a mentoring relationship that gradually awakens Jeff to the staggering cruelties of the segregated South, nearly 100 years after the Civil War. Jeff and girlfriend, Susan Adams, volunteer for paper-shuffling duties at the Ann Arbor NAACP, but grow increasingly frustrated with minimal national civil rights progress, even after theyre jailed for joining two Tennessee sit-ins. When unspeakable violence strikes, Jeff shockingly risks his life, his future and Susans love to pursue what only he views as a morally greater cause.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMay 13, 2011
ISBN9781456766955
Personal Verdict: A Civil Rights Novel
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Ralph Langer

Ralph Langer is the retired Editor & Executive Vice President of the Dallas Morning News. The News won its first six Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure. He is a photographer, a fly-fisherman and occasional expert witness on behalf of news organizations facing legal challenges. He is a University of Michigan Journalism graduate. He lives with his wife, Kathy, and their border collie, Tex, in Dallas, Texas and Livingston, Montana. This is his first novel.

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