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Read [Howard L. Feinstein Book] ^ Fire on the Bayou Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Fire on the Bayou Insight from an eyewitness to history Arthur C. Blecher Fire on the Bayou is a must-read for anyone interested in American history and the story of the struggle for human rights everywhere. As both an eyewitness and a participant, Mr. Feinstein provides a detailed and captivating first-hand account of one of the most critical turning points in the life of this nation. He speaks with a voice that is both empowered by emotion of a dedicated young civil rights attorney who put his life on the line
| Title | : | Fire on the Bayou |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940876001 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
Insight from an eyewitness to history Arthur C. Blecher Fire on the Bayou is a must-read for anyone interested in American history and the story of the struggle for human rights everywhere. As both an eyewitness and a participant, Mr. Feinstein provides a detailed and captivating first-hand account of one of the most critical turning points in the life of this nation. He speaks with a voice that is both empowered by emotion of a dedicated young civil rights attorney who put his life on the line to uphold the law of the land and infused with the wisdom of a lifetime of service.. Tara Campbell said An engaging first-hand account of the battle to enforce civil rights legislation. I enjoyed this captivating personal account of Feinstein's work with the Department of Justice investigating civil rights crimes in the areas of the U.S. that most vehemently resisted racial equality. The author states from the outset that this is not meant to be an impartial account, and as such, allows for a vivid, refreshingly candid view of the hard, grinding work of putting the landmark civil rights legislation of the 60's into effect in the 70's. Feinstein's writing style is clear and engaging, and his modesty and humor make the
It's not even past." In an emotionally candid, self-effacing and plain-spoken account, Howard Feinstein tells true tales from a time many would rather forget. military. Secrets once thought buried forever resurface in this engaging memoir of a young attorney thrust "behind the lines" into a cauldron of hate and violence, including, the fatal Ku Klux Klan bombing of a Florida civil rights pioneer and his wife, unsolved for sixty years but not forgotten, due to the persistence of their crusading daughter; a KKK reign of terror targeting interracial association in rural south Georgia, under the protection of a drug-running sheriff and his allies; the brutal, unprovoked attack by a deputy sheriff on a house-hunter across the lake from New Orleans, who found himself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and the wrong color; the harassment and abuse of a single mother and her young son, who moved into a previously all-white neighborhood in the mountains of central Pennsylvania; and, a vicious Klan rampage on the edge of Louisiana's cajun country, operating out of a U.S. For the first time in print, a federal hate crimes prosecutor takes the reader inside the grand juries, courtrooms, and killing fields of the Deep South, where, as native son William Faulkner put it, "The past is never dead
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