{"product_id":"there-when-we-needed-him-wiley-austin-branton-civil-rights-warrior","title":"There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton  Civil Rights Warrior","description":"\u003cp\u003eSupreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people. There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight  which began with Brantons being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas Law School and which took him to the highest levels of business and government. From his private law practice in Pine Bluff  Arkansas  Branton became  along with Marshall  counsel for the Little Rock Nine in their 1957 efforts to integrate Central High School. Under his leadership of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project  more than six hundred thousand black voters were registered from 1962 to 1965. He later became executive secretary of President Lyndon Johnsons Council on Equal Opportunity and special assistant to attorneys general Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark. He provided leadership to the United Planning Organization  the Alliance for Labor Action  and the NAACP; and he was dean of Howard University Law School. At Brantons funeral in 1988  former Arkansas senator David Pryor described him as quiet and unassuming. . . . It is his humility and desire to always put the goals of the civil rights movement before self which probably accounts for the fact that he was not more famous than he was. The influence of this quiet and unassuming man continues to be felt decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986493665333,"sku":"ByrdShop_1557288488","price":25.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781557288486.jpg?v=1770907312","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/there-when-we-needed-him-wiley-austin-branton-civil-rights-warrior","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}