{"product_id":"the-texas-civil-rights-project-how-we-built-a-social-justice-movement-hardback-9781477332344","title":"The Texas Civil Rights Project; How We Built a Social Justice Movement (Hardback) 9781477332344","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Texas Civil Rights Project\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow We Built a Social Justice Movement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJim Harrington (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477332344\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Texas Civil Rights Project\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The work of the [Texas] Civil Rights Project is critical in the struggle to bring about justice and equality.\" - César Chávez \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Texas Civil Rights Project\u003c\/i\u003e'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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTexas 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Framed by a foreword from Judge Lora Livingston and an afterword by Congressman Greg Casar, \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Civil Rights Project\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Foreword by Lora J. Livingston \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Past as Prologue-Justice on the Horizon? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. The Early Years: From Michigan’\u003cbr\u003es Strawberry Fields to South Texas \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. South Texas in the 1960s and 1970s: Upheaval, Resistance, and the Origin of the South Texas Project \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Police Brutality, Act I: McAllen’\u003cbr\u003es C-Shift Animals \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Texas Grand Jury Reform: Sidelining the Good Old Boys \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Farmworkers and Colonias on the Move \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. The Texas ERA Comes to the Rescue of Farmworkers and Minority Voters \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Untethering from the Texas Civil Liberties Union: Birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8. Convincing Texas Businesses and Government to Respect People with Disabilities \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. The People Push Back: Free Speech and Assembly \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10. Police Brutality, Act II: The More Cops Change \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11. Violence against Women and Sexual Bullying \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 12. Privacy: AIDS, Lie Detectors, and the Case of the Purloined Baby Blood \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 13. Daring to Sue the Supreme Court of Texas on Behalf of Low-Income Texans \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 14. Continuing the Good Fight: Other Fronts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 15. International Human Rights: Solidarity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 16. What Made TCRP Unique? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 17. Final Thoughts: Keeping the Marathon Going \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Afterword by Greg Casar \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Resources \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735313707288,"sku":"9781477332344","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-texas-civil-rights-project-how-we-built-a-social-justice-movement-hardback-9781477332344","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}