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kids, and at the doctor's or dentist's office, black kids and their parents continued to use the back door, while whites entered through the front. Pools and other community facilities were informally segregated. Stevenson's father, having grown up in the area, took the ingrained racism in his stride, but his mother openly opposed the de facto segregation. In an interview in 2017, Stevenson recalled how his mother protested the day the black children from town lined up at the back door of the
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and put all the money toward supporting the center. He guaranteed a defense of anyone in
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that the death penalty was unconstitutional for persons convicted of crimes committed under the age of 18. Stevenson worked to have the court's thinking about appropriate punishment broadened to related cases applying to children convicted under the age of 17.
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in the twelve states of the South from 1877 to 1950. He argues that the history of slavery and lynchings has influenced the subsequent high rate of death sentences in the South, where it has been disproportionately applied to minorities. A related museum,
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
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485:"100 Notable Books" for the year. It won the 2015
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417:The EJI offices are near the landing at the
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1284:Biography Bryan Stevenson
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963:Stevenson, Bryan (2014).
839:National Humanities Medal
705:National Medal of Liberty
562:, fall 2017 convocation;
556:University of Mississippi
554:, 2016, honorary degree;
548:College of the Holy Cross
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1391:Equal Justice Initiative
1041:Equal Justice Initiative
741:American Ingenuity Award
722:Gruber Prize for Justice
605:Johns Hopkins University
365:Equal Justice Initiative
355:Equal Justice Initiative
198:Stevenson initiated the
158:Equal Justice Initiative
117:Equal Justice Initiative
101:Equal Justice Initiative
3286:American legal scholars
3226:Academics from Delaware
3007:β Pamela Newkirk (2015)
2438:"Bryan Stevenson (USA)"
1305:Encyclopedia of Alabama
794:Benjamin Franklin Award
668:Benjamin Franklin Award
560:Northeastern University
469:, published in 2014 by
402:Montgomery v. Louisiana
2928:In Search of Our Roots
2856:Why I Love Black Women
2559:www.news.whitworth.edu
1150:Barrett, Paul (2007).
813:Right Livelihood Award
688:Lottie Cunningham Wren
676:Right Livelihood Award
638:Harrisonburg, Virginia
623:Jazz at Lincoln Center
579:New Orleans, Louisiana
528:University of Delaware
521:Long Beach, California
361:United States Congress
2932:Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2917:Letter to My Daughter
2722:(Podcast). Vox Media.
1547:on September 24, 2015
1068:Destin Daniel Cretton
473:. It was selected by
413:Acknowledging slavery
351:, the state capital.
213:Reconstruction period
3017:Margot Lee Shetterly
2789:When We Were Colored
2543:. December 21, 2020.
2321:Princeton University
2239:Smithsonian Magazine
950:on February 18, 2012
867:By Bryan Stevenson:
845:Whitworth University
826:Global Citizen Prize
779:University of Oxford
769:Princeton University
730:in Freedom From Fear
652:Whitworth University
244:Dover Air Force Base
3092:Nikole Hannah-Jones
3039:, Yolanda Caraway,
2720:The Ezra Klein Show
2495:. December 17, 2020
2420:www.achievement.org
2245:on October 30, 2019
1716:"Commencement 2016"
1513:The Washington Post
1448:. October 31, 2017.
1263:The Ezra Klein Show
857:Montgomery, Alabama
728:Four Freedoms Award
656:Spokane, Washington
552:Wesleyan University
315:Elizabeth Bartholet
273:Stevenson attended
162:Montgomery, Alabama
2955:Michelle Alexander
2882:Michael Eric Dyson
2860:Michael Eric Dyson
2344:. January 26, 2017
2288:(April 16, 2015).
2026:wyntonmarsalis.org
1768:Stevenson, Bryan.
1487:Atlanta Black Star
1358:The New York Times
1326:Alexander, Bryan.
1000:Stevenson, Bryan;
901:Alabama Law Review
743:in Social Progress
482:The New York Times
471:Spiegel & Grau
303:Harvard Law School
287:Eastern University
81:Harvard University
72:Eastern University
3316:MacArthur Fellows
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2607:"Bryan Stevenson"
2493:amsterdamnews.com
2116:www.amphilsoc.org
1831:. August 23, 2017
1650:. TED Conferences
1623:. TED Conferences
1288:The HistoryMakers
662:Awards and honors
617:On May 21, 2021,
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396:Miller v. Alabama
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