Michael Meltsner discusses his book "The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer."

Michael Meltsner appeared at the Massachusetts School of Law as part of the ongoing "Noted Authors Series." This podcast contains his full remarks.

About the Book:

"It was not until I arrived at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that I learned my profession, how to work with colleagues and clients, and how it might feel to grow up in the law." So begins Michael Meltsner's vivid account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates he became such a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. Part memoir and part critical study, The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer offers both a personalized history of the civil rights movement from a participant's perspective, and the compelling account of how a lawyer committed to social change discovered himself in his work.

-From www.michaelmelstner.com