{"product_id":"a-passion-for-justice-j-waties-waring-and-civil-rights-9780195041880","title":"A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address  impeccable social credentials  and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians  U.S. District Court Judge Julius Waties Waring shocked family  friends  and an entire state in 1945 when  at age sixty-five  he divorced his wife of more than thirty years and embarked upon a far-reaching challenge to the most fundamental racial values of his native region. The first jurist in modern times to declare segregated schooling \"inequality per se \" Waring also ordered the equalization of teachers salaries and outlawed South Carolinas white primary. Off the bench  he and his second wife--a twice-divorced  politically liberal Northerner who was even more outspoken in her political views than Waring himself--castigated Dixiecrats and southern liberals alike for their defense of segregation  condemned the \"sickness\" of white southern society  urged a complete breakdown of state-enforced bars to racial intermingling  and entertained blacks in their home  becoming pariahs in South Carolina and controversial figures nationally. Tinsley Yarbrough examines the life and career of this fascinating but neglected jurist  assessing the controversy he generated  his place in the early history of the modern civil rights movement  and the forces motivating his repudiation of his past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651827097653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195041887","price":86.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195041880.jpg?v=1781841440","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-passion-for-justice-j-waties-waring-and-civil-rights-9780195041880","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}