In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.
Kent Spriggs, editor of Voicesof Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980, hasbeen a civil rights lawyer for nearly six decades. He practices in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was a city commissioner and mayor.