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Blurb: “From growing up Black and female in pre-World War Il America to defending some of the most significant political cases of the century, Evelyn Williams gives both a compelling personal story and a valuable social document in Inadmissible Evidence.
Before Williams embarked on her law career, she was selected by the New York State Supreme Court as the probation officer who would aid the court in determining the outcome of the custody battle for the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Admitted to the bar in 1959, she rose to prominence in the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies as a defender of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the politically dissident members of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. She is most celebrated for her six-year defense of her niece, revolutionary Assata Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard. As Williams charts her relationship with Assata, she captures both the details and the spirit of two generations of Black women on the frontlines of the fight for racial justice.
"This book is not just about Evelyn Williams becoming a lawyer. It is about the kind of lawyer Evelyn Williams becomes. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once declared that life is action and passion and that one must share the actions and passions of one's times or be deemed not to have lived. Judged by this standard, Evelyn Williams has lived and lived greatly. She has lived her life as a lawyer committed not just to law but, with fierce determination, to justice as well."
-Haywood Burns, from the Foreword
Evelyn Williams, a practicing attorney in New York City, is cocounsel to Stevens, Hinds and White. She has taught civil and criminal law at The City College of the City University of New York, Rutgers University, and New York University School of Law.”