Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life (V. Ethel Willis White Books)

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Carl Maxey used to be, in his own words, “a guy who began from scratch – black scratch.” He used to be sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children’s Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the one other “colored” orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer at Gonzaga University, and then as eastern Washington’s first prominent black lawyer and a renowned civil rights attorney who all the time fought for the underdog.

During the tumultuous civil rights and Vietnam War eras, Carl Maxey fought to break down color barriers in his native land of Spokane and all the way through the nation. As a defense lawyer, he made national headlines working on lurid murder cases and war-protest trials, including the notorious Seattle Seven trial. He even took his commitment to justice and antiwar causes to the political arena, running for the U.S. Senate against powerhouse senator Henry M. Jackson.

In Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, Jim Kershner explores the sources of Maxey’s passions in addition to the fee he in the long run paid for his struggles. The result is a moving portrait of a man referred to as a “Type-A Gandhi” by the New York Times, whose own personal misfortune spurred his lifelong, tireless crusade against injustice.

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