Purchase
Power Concedes Nothing
Connie Rice
One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
Scribner
January 2012
On Sale: January 10, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 1416575006
EAN: 9781416575009
Kindle: B004T4KQTS
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Memoir
From one of America’s most influential civil rights
attorneys, Power Concedes Nothing is a hard-hitting memoir
chronicling a fiercely dedicated woman’s quest to win the
first of all human rights: freedom from violence. CONNIE RICE has taken on school and bus systems, Death Row,
the states of Mississippi and California, and the Los
Angeles Police Department—and won. Not just in court, where
she vindicated major civil rights cases, but also on the
streets and in prisons, where she spearheaded campaigns to
reduce gang violence. Los Angeles magazine concluded that
Connie’s work “has picked up where Clarence Darrow left off.” In her extraordinary memoir, Rice chronicles her odyssey,
the people who inspired her, and the teams she forged with
allies and former foes. She counts among her partners LAPD
police chiefs William Bratton and Charlie Beck, Los Angeles
County Sheriff Lee Baca, and gang interventionists such as
Darren “Bo” Taylor. Rice—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice—writes of being the great-granddaughter of former
slaves and slave owners who prized the aggressive pursuit of
knowledge. Even her U.S. Air Force childhood, with seventeen
moves across three continents, could not disrupt this family
legacy of voracious accomplishment. After joining the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s West Coast
office in 1990, Rice left the courtroom and took to the
streets of the “kill zones” in the wake of the cataclysmic
LAPD beating of Rodney King in 1991. What she learned from
the invisible poor of underground Los Angeles would change
her mission forever. In her trek through gangland, Rice discovers that if you
bury the underclass, you imperil yourself—a warning that her
allies from law enforcement and the military strongly endorse. Provocative and passionate, studded with dramatic episodes
from the trenches of impact litigation and America’s most
dangerous neighborhoods, Power Concedes Nothing is the story
of an indomitable woman who knows that, without a demand,
power concedes nothing.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy