Who Is Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy?
Marginalized and Excluded He was not ready to meet a condemned man. He was not ready to meet the young children and men on death row. He wasn't ready for reality, he would not be able to save everyone. Stevenson’s nonfiction book, Just Mercy, published in New York by Spiegel & Grau, focuses on a very controversial subject. We easily condemn people in this country and the injustices we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. We have also created a caste system that forces people to be homeless because of previous convictions. The backbone of the book is a man named as Walter McMillian, and he was accused of killing a white woman in the 1980’s. Bryan Stevenson always wondered how and why people are judged unfairly.
Bryan Stevenson was born in 1959, and he …show more content…
Stevenson became an African American law student during the Civil Rights Movement, a time when interracial couples could not date. Later in his life, Stevenson was put on death row for a short period of time. One of his death row victims was having relationship with a white married woman. The time frame of the book is mainly 1960’s but it also goes into the 2000’s-2013. This time frame is an important setting for the book because it was during the civil rights movement, so it gave to book the setting of justice for african americans put on death row.
Just Mercy is about a man who was interested in law, race and poverty, and that motivated him to move to Atlanta in 1983 to help the condemned people. He had the simple job of telling a man that he will not be killed next year. At the beginning of the novel, Stevenson talked about his childhood, for he grew up with his grandma in a
Bryan Stevenson was born in 1959, and he …show more content…
Stevenson became an African American law student during the Civil Rights Movement, a time when interracial couples could not date. Later in his life, Stevenson was put on death row for a short period of time. One of his death row victims was having relationship with a white married woman. The time frame of the book is mainly 1960’s but it also goes into the 2000’s-2013. This time frame is an important setting for the book because it was during the civil rights movement, so it gave to book the setting of justice for african americans put on death row.
Just Mercy is about a man who was interested in law, race and poverty, and that motivated him to move to Atlanta in 1983 to help the condemned people. He had the simple job of telling a man that he will not be killed next year. At the beginning of the novel, Stevenson talked about his childhood, for he grew up with his grandma in a