Career Facts
The Georgia organization that gave Stevenson an internship
What is Southern Prisoners Defense Committee (SPDC)?
What the director of the SPDC told Stevenson about the internship
What is "hope you're not expecting anything too fancy"?
Stevenson's father left his hometown to...
What are "go to high school and bring home a wife"?
Where Stevenson grew up
What is a poor, rural, racially segregated settlement in Delaware.
Where the first prison he visited was located
Where is Jackson, Georgia?
Where Stevenson studied after law school
Where is the Kennedy School of Government?
What Stevenson's grandmother told him to do
What is "keep close" to understand things.
Stevenson's father's two jobs
What are working in a food factory and domestic work at beach cottages and rentals?
Living in tiny shacks without plumbing, people in Stevenson's hometown used...
What are outhouses?
The central prisoner character of this book
Who is Walter McMillian?
What Stevenson learned in his internship
What is "something missing in the treatment of death row prisoners"?
What Stevenson believes Walter's case shows
What is "How our legal system convicts and condemns people irresponsibly"?
Where Stevenson's mother worked
What is an Air Force base?
When Stevenson was growing up, African Americans lived in...
What are "colored ghettos"?
The name of the first prisoner Stevenson visited while on his internship
Who is Henry?
Stevenson would start his own legal practice in Alabama, which he calls...
What is the "Deep South"?
The vital lesson Stevenson's work has taught him
What is "Each of us is worth more than th worst thing we've ever done"?
The status of Stevenson's grandmother's parents
What is enslaved?
Where Stevenson went to college
Where is Harvard Law School?
What he was told to say when meeting the first prisoner on his intership
An early mentor told him what capital punishment meant...
What is "people who did not have money or capital received the punishment"?
Stevenson says can this can corrupt a community, state or nation
Stevenson's great-grandfather kept this fact hidden until he was freed.
What is "he could read and write."
Stevenson majored in this subject in college.
What is philosophy?
What Henry did when they ended their first meeting
What is singing an old church hymn?