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Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.
Jim Harrington arrived in South Texas in 1973, ready to file class action lawsuits and "save the world." Over the following fifty years, he built one of Texas's key civil rights organizations and played an essential role in many of its greatest victories.
Harrington takes readers on his journey from a Midwest seminary to a United Farm Workers office in the Rio Grande Valley and on to founding the Texas Civil Rights Project. He fought for the rights of a wide range of Texans, bringing justice to victims of police brutality, injured farmworkers, silenced students, and people with disabilities excluded from full participation in society, building a movement for social justice, and a family, along the way. These major gains were tempered by heartbreaking losses, and Harrington recounts the difficult work of persevering in the face of injustice.
Framed by a foreword from Judge Lora Livingston and an afterword by Congressman Greg Casar, The Texas Civil Rights Project is at once a history of the struggle for equality over the last fifty years, a celebration of the individuals and grassroots organizations who fought hard to improve the lives of others, and a memoir of a singular force who pushed the Texas justice system to live up to its ideals.
Contents
Foreword by Lora J. Livingston
Introduction: Past as Prologue-Justice on the Horizon?
1. The Early Years: From Michigan's Strawberry Fields to South Texas
2. South Texas in the 1960s and 1970s: Upheaval, Resistance, and the Origin of the South Texas Project
3. Police Brutality, Act I: McAllen's C-Shift Animals
4. Texas Grand Jury Reform: Sidelining the Good Old Boys
5. Farmworkers and Colonias on the Move
6. The Texas ERA Comes to the Rescue of Farmworkers and Minority Voters
7. Untethering from the Texas Civil Liberties Union: Birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project
8. Convincing Texas Businesses and Government to Respect People with Disabilities
9. The People Push Back: Free Speech and Assembly
10. Police Brutality, Act II: The More Cops Change . . .
11. Violence against Women and Sexual Bullying
12. Privacy: AIDS, Lie Detectors, and the Case of the Purloined Baby Blood
13. Daring to Sue the Supreme Court of Texas on Behalf of Low-Income Texans
14. Continuing the Good Fight: Other Fronts
15. International Human Rights: Solidarity
16. What Made TCRP Unique?
17. Final Thoughts: Keeping the Marathon Going
Afterword by Greg Casar
Acknowledgments
Resources
Index
