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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a black man charged with raping a white woman. Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, a trial that was much publicized when Harper Lee was twelve years old. On the day of Foster Beck s client s arrest, the leading local newspaper reported, under a page-one headline, that...
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