Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story

The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and...
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Author: Ashley Wiltshire
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story by Wiltshire, Ashley

Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story

$60.18

Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story

$60.18
Author: Ashley Wiltshire
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Justice is an on-the-ground history of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, the story of how national debates about access to justice have impacted the work of its lawyers, and a warning about why the federally imposed limits on that work must be lifted in order to fulfill the pledge of justice for all.

Those surviving on low incomes often see the legal system as an oppressive force stacked against them. Everyday Justice is about lawyers trying to make the law work for these people. This book traces the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium, as told by Ashley Wiltshire, who worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands in all its incarnations for four decades, beginning a year after its inception.

Set in the context of the legal aid movement in the United States--beginning as a part of the social awakening in the post-Civil War era, continuing with volunteer efforts in the first part of the twentieth century, and coming to fruition beginning with the OEO Office of Legal Services grants of the 1960s as part of the War on Poverty--Everyday Justice is a story of Nashville, which levied an extended period of opposition because of prevailing cultural and religious views on race and poverty.

Author: Ashley Wiltshire
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 01/15/2023
Pages: 394
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780826505101

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