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Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
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Author:
Matthew Van Meter
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
July 28, 2020
In 1966 in small-town Louisiana, a 19-year-old Black man named Gary Duncan tried to stop a fight and was arrested for the "crime" of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a young lawyer at a radical New Orleans law firm that ultimately won justice for its client with a court decision that meaningfully changed the law.
What The Reviewers Say
Van Meter masterfully traces the career of aspiring Jewish corporate lawyer Richard Sobol.
In this well-researched account, Van Meter presents a court case that changed the course of social injustice in the South.
... [an] excellent debut.
Though not as revelatory as Just Mercy, this will appeal to admirers of Bryan Stevenson and similar crusaders. Timely reading as Americans continue to reckon with an unreliable, sometimes racist criminal justice system..
