{"product_id":"9781945624254","title":"Outspoken: The Olly Neal Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Born in 1941 on a farm near Marianna in rural eastern Arkansas, Olly Neal Jr. grew up in a large family with parents who insisted on their children getting a good education. Neal had the intellect but not the temperament to be a good student in high school, but a teacher took an interest in him when she saw him steal a book rather than risk his tough-guy reputation if someone saw him checking it out. Neal went on to start and lead the Lee County Cooperative Clinic in Marianna during the 1970s, a turbulent time fraught with conflicts between the white power structure and black citizens seeking their civil rights and increased economic opportunities. (The clinic remains a prominent community health center.) He became the first black district prosecuting attorney in Arkansas, and then served as a circuit court judge and on the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Historian Grif Stockley has characterized Neal as a civil rights activist, political agitator, Arkansas Delta advocate, and \"black devil incarnate\" to manyof Marianna's whites\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central Arkansas Library System","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308765294827,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.84,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781945624254-1.jpg?v=1781713218","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781945624254","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}