{"product_id":"the-texas-civil-rights-project-how-we-built-a-social-justice-movement-9781477332344","title":"The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTexas 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarrington 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFramed by a foreword from Judge Lora Livingston and an afterword by Congressman Greg Casar, \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Civil Rights Project\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jim Harrington founded the Texas Civil Rights Project and served as its director from 1990 to 2015. Previously, he led the South Texas Project, served as the Texas Civil Liberties Union's lawyer, taught at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, and was César Chávez's Texas attorney. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603102368018,"sku":"9781477332344","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b338a3a1-74dd-4e46-8c6b-ca9c9a2fadae.jpg?v=1757424369","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-texas-civil-rights-project-how-we-built-a-social-justice-movement-9781477332344","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}