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The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Justice is an on-the-ground history of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, the story of how national debates about access to justice have impacted the work of its lawyers, and a warning about why the federally imposed limits on that work must be lifted in order to fulfill the pledge of justice for all.
Those surviving on low incomes often see the legal system as an oppressive force stacked against them. Everyday Justice is about lawyers trying to make the law work for these people. This book traces the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium, as told by Ashley Wiltshire, who worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands in all its incarnations for four decades, beginning a year after its inception.
Set in the context of the legal aid movement in the United States—beginning as a part of the social awakening in the post–Civil War era, continuing with volunteer efforts in the first part of the twentieth century, and coming to fruition beginning with the OEO Office of Legal Services grants of the 1960s as part of the War on Poverty—Everyday Justice is a story of Nashville, which levied an extended period of opposition because of prevailing cultural and religious views on race and poverty.
Those surviving on low incomes often see the legal system as an oppressive force stacked against them. Everyday Justice is about lawyers trying to make the law work for these people. This book traces the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium, as told by Ashley Wiltshire, who worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands in all its incarnations for four decades, beginning a year after its inception.
Set in the context of the legal aid movement in the United States—beginning as a part of the social awakening in the post–Civil War era, continuing with volunteer efforts in the first part of the twentieth century, and coming to fruition beginning with the OEO Office of Legal Services grants of the 1960s as part of the War on Poverty—Everyday Justice is a story of Nashville, which levied an extended period of opposition because of prevailing cultural and religious views on race and poverty.
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Publisher
Vanderbilt University PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780826505101, 9780826506382eBook ISBN
9780826505118Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Early Legal Aid, National and Nashville: 1863–1965
- 2. Establishing Legal Services of Nashville: 1965–1969
- 3. Conflicts Inside and Out: 1969–1973
- 4. Wide-Ranging Advocacy: 1973–1976
- 5. We Grow: 1976–1980
- 6. Nasty, Brutish, and Long
- 7. Mostly Drake
- 8. Women Lawyers Challenge Domestic Violence
- 9. Family Dramas
- 10. Young Lawyers Change Juvenile Law
- 11. Bless This House
- 12. Caveat Emptor
- 13. Five Women Reform Industrial Insurance
- 14. Hospitals, Banks, Automobile Dealers, and the United Way
- 15. Doomsday: 1981–1991
- 16. It’s an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
- 17. Healthcare and Paying for It
- 18. Social Security Disability
- 19. Justice Is Everybody’s Business
- 20. High Hopes, Doomsday II, and Then Consolidation: 1992–2002
- 21. A Unique Practice of Law
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index