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The Texas Civil Rights Project
How We Built a Social Justice Movement
Jim Harrington (Author)
9781477332344
Hardback, published 16 September 2025
320 pages, 21 b&w photos
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg
"The Texas Civil Rights Project makes you feel you are there, with Jim, reliving the experiences, learning as he was, and gaining the motivation to follow his footsteps into activism. Jim’s life story gives us so many examples of faith in action and belief in one’s own power. This book is an inspiration and a blueprint for all who believe in justice." - Dolores Huerta
"The work of the [Texas] Civil Rights Project is critical in the struggle to bring about justice and equality." - César Chávez
"The Texas Civil Rights Project's contribution to social justice is a wonder to behold! Jim Harrington's chronicle about TCRP is a must-read for anyone committed to making ours a more just world. In a time where uncertainty is shaking our hope for tomorrow, Jim reminds us of yesterday's darkest days and restores our hope that as long as we have the faith, the will, and the energy, there is hope that one day again "we shall overcome!" - Luci Baines Johnson
Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice. Jim Harrington arrived in South Texas in 1973, ready to file class action lawsuits and “save the world.” Over the following fifty years, he built one of Texas’s key civil rights organizations and played an essential role in many of its greatest victories. Harrington takes readers on his journey from a Midwest seminary to a United Farm Workers office in the Rio Grande Valley and on to founding the Texas Civil Rights Project. He fought for the rights of a wide range of Texans, bringing justice to victims of police brutality, injured farmworkers, silenced students, and people with disabilities excluded from full participation in society, building a movement for social justice, and a family, along the way. These major gains were tempered by heartbreaking losses, and Harrington recounts the difficult work of persevering in the face of injustice. Framed by a foreword from Judge Lora Livingston and an afterword by Congressman Greg Casar, The Texas Civil Rights Project is at once a history of the struggle for equality over the last fifty years, a celebration of the individuals and grassroots organizations who fought hard to improve the lives of others, and a memoir of a singular force who pushed the Texas justice system to live up to its ideals.
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