enjoyed discussing public defenders past & present with Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice - thanks for having me! facebook.com/RustinCenter/v…

The Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers has been processed and digitized and is now accessible online to scholars, students, and the public.

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Ubiquitous, embattled, taken for granted, public defenders underfunded & overworked which creates inadequate representation for our most vulnerable populations
sara mayeux on Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice Social Justice Power Hour talkin' 'Free Justice'
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will be joining Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice for their Social Justice Power Hour on Feb 8: facebook.com/events/4185169…

enjoyed doing this Q&A with untold, as a longtime fan of their efforts generally in keeping books coverage alive in Tennessee!

retweeting from February 👀

Terrific review by Matthew Clair of sara mayeux's book, Free Justice: How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System? via The Nation thenation.com/article/societ…

just signed on Twitter for the first time since ~March and was reviewing my own long forgotten tweets. would like to update that Rex still has never once joined a Zoom! it's bc he is too smart to involve himself in work. ok signing off Twitter again for the next 6 months.... ttyl

'Taking readers from the Progressive Era to the height of the Cold War, Mayeux shows the stages by which influential reformers crafted our current indigent-defense system' Matthew Clair pens a terrific review of the new book by Prof sara mayeux on the history of public defending.

Overnight, the the City of Philadelphia removed the Frank Rizzo statue in this photo. How did we get from the era of the 'Mayor Cop' to this moment? Timothy J Lombardo breaks down the history in this Q&A w/ sara mayeux: bunkhistory.org/resources/1405

'Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America' by sara mayeux will be out next month from @uncpressblog. They're currently running a 40% off special for preorders. Check it out here: bit.ly/2WIPAJH