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title	:	The Conscience of a Lawyer : Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties, 1899-1975
author	:	Salmond, John A.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0817304533
print isbn13	:	9780817304539
ebook isbn13	:	9780585251998
language	:	English
subject	Durr, Clifford J.--(Clifford Judkins),--1899- , Lawyers--United States--Biography, Civil rights--United States--History.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	KF373.D87S25 1990eb
ddc	:	349.73/092/4
subject	:	Durr, Clifford J.--(Clifford Judkins),--1899- , Lawyers--United States--Biography, Civil rights--United States--History.

Page i The Conscience of a Lawyer

Page ii Cliff Durr, 1933 (Courtesy of the Albama State Department of Archives and History)

Page iii The Conscience of a Lawyer Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties, 18991975 John A. Salmond The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London

Page iv Copyright 1990 by The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 354870380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI A39.481984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salmond, John A. The conscience of a lawyer : Clifford J. Durr and American civil liberties, 18991975 / John A. Salmond. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8173-0453-3 (alk. paper) 1. Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899 2. LawyersUnited StatesBiography. 3. Civil rights United StatesHistory. I. Title. KF373.D87S25 1990 349.73'092'4dcl9 [B] [347.30924] [B] 89-4666 CIP British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available

Page v This book is dedicated to my grandchildren, Bill, Hilary, Jim, and Tom Washington, whose heritage most satisfactorily combines Alabama and the Antipodes, and to the memory of David Alan Kingsley Jolley.

Page vii Contents Preface ix 1. A Southern Boy 1 2. Johnny Reb at Oxford 19 3. Learning the Lawand Other Things 33 4. New Dealer 47 5. Wave-length Warrior 72 6. The Loyalty Issue 98 7. Civil Liberties Lawyer 123 8. Colorado Interlude 144 9. Montgomery and New Orleans 154 10. The Civil Rights Revolution 170 11. Retirement and Reflection 196 12. Conclusion 213 13. Notes 220 14. Bibliography 251 15. Index 260

Page ix Preface At a memorial service for Clifford Judkins Durr in June 1975, his daughter Tilla repeated a story of his childhood, a favorite one, which Durr had often himself told. It was a ghost story, describing an event which occurred when he was about ten years old and spending the summer, as he always did, on his grandfather's farm at Wetumpka, Alabama. One summer day, so the story went, Durr set out with his trusty horse Belle to visit an old sawmill on a road leading out of Wetumpka. So intrigued was he by the mill's workings that he forgot the time, as small boys will, and by the time he and Belle came to make their return journey through the woods, dusk was falling, and the woods were full of the sights and sounds of impending night. The young Durr was frightened. Then, suddenly, both Belle and he spied a terrible apparition, the figure of a man hovering under a large sycamore tree. Belle bolted home, the terrified young Durr clinging to her back for dear life. Clifford soon told his black playmates, sons and daughters of the farm workers, what he had seen. They knew it had been a ghost, for a man had been killed in that very spot some years earlier, and rumors abounded that his spirit had come back to haunt the area. Moreover, Durr and Belle were both so clearly terrified by the apparition that this in itself reinforced the veracity of the rumors. Grandpa Judkins was not impressedindeed, he was very angry. "You get right back on Belle," he commanded, "and take another look at that ghost, and then you come back and tell me and your friends just exactly what you see." Not only had Cliff been "scaring folks unnecessarily," the old man said, but he had "just about ruined a good horse" as well.

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