Touched with Fire by David E. Lowe HARDBACK 9781640120969

Touched with FireMorris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination\nAuthor(s): David E. Lowe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640120969, 978-1640120969\nSynopsis\nWinner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography\n\n Morris B. Abram [tel] emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil rights lawyers in the United States during the 1950s. While unmasking the Ku Klux Klan and serving as a key intermediary for the release of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from prison on the eve of the 1960 presidential election, Abram carried out a successful fourteen-year battle to end the discriminatory voting system in his home state, which had entrenched racial segregation. The result was the historic one man, one vote ruling of the [url] Supreme Court in 1963.\n\n At the time of his selection-the youngest person ever chosen to head the American Jewish .