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A Passion for Justice: One Man's Dedication to Civil Rights

A Passion for Justice: One Man's Dedication to Civil Rights

Fertig, Ralph D.

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Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1480953326
ISBN13: 9781480953321
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.
Published: Jun 11 2018
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Ralph D. Fertig documents origins and episodes in the Civil Rights Movement. He has been a steady and consistent advocate for civil rights through non-violent direct action in most of his 88 years. We met in the 1961 Freedom Rides and in his book, A Passion for Justice, Fertig chronicles struggles for desegregation before, through and since then. In the current political climate, this is a book for today.


-John Lewis, US Congressman


Hailed by the Washington Post as the Conscience of Washington, and by the Los Angeles Times as a cog in the wheel of justice, Ralph D. Fertig began his social activism in his home, filled with German Jewish refugees. In high school and college, he campaigned for desegregation and justice in housing and employment. At the University of Chicago, he fought for academic freedom. He began social work organizing peace between warring street gangs on Chicago's South side. Fertig organized programs for equal rights with the Congress Of Racial Equality and the Americans for Democratic Action.

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