To come back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there he and thousands and we followed him as the unofficial detective as he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. How did you come up with the name . A voice was speaking first person and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and then woman he was in love with of adam made that she is in love with mouse and mouse looks at the person who is talking and thats what he came from. Why voices he supposed to represent . Its interesting because how the africanamerican voice is the choir of america. Did you set out as a vehicle for social commentary . Any good novel that talks about any character talks about how they are incurred and the society and culture and politics. Then you dont have a real character. It seems that everybody does that. Not a lot of people were doing that with black mail he rose to become a Strong Social commentary not because that was my intention bu
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Mack presents his book, representing threpresenting te creation of the civil rights lawyer. Well, thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me, and thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk little bit about the book, a little bit about how i came to write it, and ill read just a little but also and then we will take questions. So the book. The book is a biographical account of men and women who changed america. Men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country that we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Its a collective biography of a group of africanamerican civil rights lawyers who practice law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and a number of lesserknown figures like los angeles lawyer laura miller, polly murray who has spent some of her career here in washington, d. C. ,
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