About the book
Lawyer Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, as a young man, to defend poor clients and the wrongly condemned. The memoir follows one of his first cases, Walter McMillian, sentenced to death for a notorious murder he insisted he had not committed, a case that pulled Stevenson into conspiracy and political maneuvering. Chapters on McMillian alternate with other cases, including children given life sentences and other marginalized clients. The book won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and an NAACP Image Award, and became a film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.
Brene Brown described it as a call to both personal and collective courage and said Stevenson's work changed her, and Richard Branson put it on his World Book Day list of 65 books to read in a lifetime.
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This book has 3 recommendations
Recommended by Richard Branson (Founder/Virgin Group)
Jake Barton (Founder/Local Projects)
This book showed that you can tell the stories of the roughest, the most searing, the most inhumane parts of our world, and leave your audience feeling more human and more hopeful than before
Brene Brown (Author & Researcher)
This book is a call to individual and collective courage. Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, writes, "Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice." His work changed me.
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