1980 1st Ed Signed to Tom Monteverde "Of Kennedy's & Kings" by Harris Wofford.


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Tom P. Monteverde, was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who successfully sued the KKK in the Civil Rights era. Monteverde specialized in commercial litigation, often accepting difficult cases for clients unable to find another lawyer who would agree to represent them.


In the spring of 1967, Monteverde spent a month in Jackson, Mississippi, providing pro bono legal services to African-Americans under the office of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. Before returning to his practice in Philadelphia, he devised a novel legal strategy that ultimately lodged a fatal blow to the Klu Klux Klan.


According to Lawrence Aschenbrenner, who served with Monteverde in Mississippi and remained after he left, there had been no verdict against the KKK since Reconstruction after the Civil War. Whites had enjoyed almost 100 years of impunity for the killing of blacks. When Monteverde was serving in Mississippi, a 65-year-old African American man, Ben Chester White, had been brutally murdered by a trio of members of the Cotton Mouth Moccasin Clavern of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.


Monteverde had an innate desire to seek justice, but he recognized the futility of a criminal prosecution in Mississippi state court. He theorized, however, that a civil wrongful death suit could be brought in federal court, where "diversity" jurisdiction could be obtained if an heir or other personal representative bringing the claim was a citizen of a state other than Mississippi. Trial in federal court could have a considerably greater chance of obtaining a verdict, especially since the jury pool consisted of both African-American and Caucasian jurors. The strategy was implemented, and a judgment was ultimately obtained, including one million dollars in punitive damages, notwithstanding the fact that the presiding judge was an avowed racist.

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Very informative, large publication. 1980, 1st Edition, handsigned signature from author Harris Wofford "For Tom Monteverde, who has his own story to tell". Hard cover + dust jacket, complete, 503 numbered pages, all pages intact.

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