And Still I Rise

Informationen zum Autor Doreen Lawrence Klappentext In the end, long after the case against the five suspects had been dropped, the government had to give in to mounting pressure and hold a public inquiry, which became the most explosive in British legal history. These facts leave the reader unprepared for Doreen Lawrence's own story of her son's murder. In And Still I Rise by Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence tells - in her own words and for the first time - the heartbreaking story of her son's murder and how she fought to change the British criminal justice system forever. Zusammenfassung In the end, long after the case against the five suspects had been dropped, the government had to give in to mounting pressure and hold a public inquiry, which became the most explosive in British legal history. These facts leave the reader unprepared for Doreen Lawrence's own story of her son's murder.

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Doreen Lawrence

Product details

• Authors: Doreen Lawrence, Lawrence Doreen
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2007
• EAN: 9780571234592
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23459-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Relating to Black British people