{"id":4580,"date":"2015-07-01T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2015-07-01T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:29:01","slug":"stevenson-bryan-a-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4580","title":{"rendered":"STEVENSON, BRYAN A., 1959-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><br \/>\nAttorney; \u00a0advocate for individuals in the justice system. Born November 14, 1959, Milton, Delaware. Parents: Howard Carlton and Alice Gertrude Golden Stevenson. Education: Eastern University, 1981; Harvard Law School (J.D.), 1985; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, M.P.P., 1985. \u00a0Professor of law at New York University; executive director, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery. Awarded twenty honorary degrees; among many other honors, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1995; the William Robert Ming Advocacy Award from the NAACP in 2010; the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction from the American Library Association in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Bryan Stevenson website; Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<br \/>\n<strong>Publications;<\/strong><br \/>\nJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel &amp; Grau, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Attorney; \u00a0advocate for individuals in the justice system. Born November 14, 1959, Milton, Delaware. Parents: Howard Carlton and Alice Gertrude Golden Stevenson. Education: Eastern University, 1981; Harvard Law School (J.D.), 1985; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, M.P.P., 1985. \u00a0Professor of law at New York University; executive director, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery. Awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}