STANDING UP FOR JUSTICE

About the Book

Standing Up For Justice is about a fourteen-year-old boy who had come from Chicago to Mississippi to visit an uncle in 1955. After making a pass at a white woman, the black youth was brutally beaten, then shot. His murder and subsequent trial tell the story of how African American witnesses were courageous enough to tell the truth about what they knew of the kidnapping and killing. The murder trial also graphically exposes the ugly horrors of racism in the South.

About the Author

Born in 1963 in Seattle, Washington, Walter Williams Jr. has been writing since the age of ten, mostly writing plays. His first play, "A Shade of Gray," won first place in a competition, resulting in its production at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center in 1990. His earliest efforts have been drama and detective novels, particularly where the subject matter is controversial.