LET MY PEOPLE GO

An analysis and a story of a civil rights lawyer's awakening to America's true moral.

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar and has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. LET MY PEOPLE GO is the story of her awakening to the country's true moral and spiritual crisis-combining personal narrative, explanatory prose, and original analysis.

Michelle Alexander graduated from Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University before clerking for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In 2005, she accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, and was the recipient of a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of THE NEW JIM CROW (The New Press, 2010), her critically-acclaimed book that appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year.