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ISBN: 1588383423
Title: Won Over Pdf Reflections of a Federal Judge on His Journey from Jim Crow Mississippi
Author: William Alsup
Published Date: 2019
Page: 250

A revealing account of how one young man overcame his segregationist upbringing and conspired with a few friends to take on Mississippi’s white establishment… Informative and inspiring.―Charles Overby, chairman of Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, University of MississippiThis is a captivating story of the metamorphosis of a son of the South who helped usher in a new day of race relations in Jim Crow Mississippi. This book is superbly written and offers an accurate, personal look at the influences and motivations behind one man’s journey during a troubling time in history. I highly recommend this book. ― Bill Waller, Jr. Chief Justice of Mississippi, retiredWith prose that is at times lyrical and occasionally searing, Judge Alsup shares a deeply personal account of his experience growing up in very modest circumstances in segregated rural Mississippi, where “the Civil War felt as if it had just ended.” Alsup becomes an active participant in the turbulent struggle for civil rights and racial equality. His career culminates as an accomplished lawyer and ultimately as a highly regarded federal judge. This riveting narrative, in which personal and historical events are skillfully interwoven, is adorned with gems such as the author’s observation that his parents―despite their segregationist views―“essentially agreed with Lincoln that anyone who believed in slavery should try it on for size. ―California Chief Justice Ronald M. George (retired)This engaging memoir of the Civil Rights era by one of our most distinguished federal judges confronts the past with admirable candor as it chronicles a young white Southerner's journey from acceptance of the racial status quo to a commitment to full equality for all.―Linda Greenhouse, contributing columnist at the New York Times and lecturer at Yale Law School Judge William Alsup was born in Mississippi in 1945 and attended state-segregated white public schools until his junior year at Mississippi State University. The first African American student would enroll in the college that year, marking the author’s first experience in an integrated school. Alsup was accepted to Harvard University in 1967, which led him to move from his home state for the first time. At Harvard, Alsup earned a law degree and a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government. In 1971–1972, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, working on the abortion cases and the “Trees Have Standing” case. Alsup then returned to Mississippi, where he practiced civil rights law before eventually relocating to California as a trial lawyer. In 1999, he was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as a United States District Judge in San Francisco. He has presided over a number of high-profile trials, with more than two hundred of his opinions being reprinted in official legal reporters. He is also the author of Such a Landscape! and Missing in the Minarets. Alsup is married with two children and two grandchildren.

What was it like growing up white in Mississippi as the civil rights movement exploded in the 1950s and ’60s? How did some white children reconcile the decency and fairness taught by their parents with the indecency and unfairness of the Mississippi “Way of Life,” the euphemism applied to Jim Crow segregation? Won Over examines these questions as it traces the life journey of United States District Judge William Alsup, born in Mississippi in 1945 to hard-working parents who believed in segregation but also in fairness and decency. Therein lay the struggle at the core of the human predicament in the South. Alsup’s memoir recounts the influences that drew the author from traditional Southern attitudes toward a color-blind ideal. Those influences included his older sister, Willanna, his closest circle of friends, a charismatic mentor in college, and the moral force of the civil rights movement. Won Over recalls some of his steps along that journey―a counterprotest to a John Birch Society billboard calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren; a personal meeting with the brother of slain leader Medgar Evers to convey condolences; a letter to the editor of the statewide paper on behalf of his circle of friends declaring “We are for civil rights for Negroes”; a successful 1966 challenge to a statewide ban on “controversial” speakers on college campuses, used to prevent blacks from being invited to speak; and a visit to a Chicago church to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak against housing and employment discrimination.

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