Reverend Agee has summoned the council of black ministers for strategic planning. He has deposited nearly $6,000 (out of $7,000) in the Hailey defense fund and will seek NAACP advice on disbursement. Council members arrive in their Cadillacs and Lincolns. On Monday the thirty-year-old Jewish supervisor of the NAACP "death squad" arrives in Clanton. Norman Reinfeld, a Harvard Law School graduate, passed up a Wall Street job in the family law firm to save blacks from death row in the Deep South. He is "arrogant and insolent by nature" and totally committed to his task. He turns a blind eye to the guilt of many of his clients. After Agee introduces Reinfeld, he asks for an immediate meeting with Hailey and his local lawyer. Jake will be asked to help with the defense.....
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