Grif Stockley Books In Order

Gideon Page Books In Order

  1. Expert Testimony (1991)
  2. Probable Cause (1992)
  3. Religious Conviction (1994)
  4. Illegal Motion (1995)
  5. Blind Judgment (1997)

Novels

  1. Salted with Fire (2001)

Non fiction

  1. Blood in Their Eyes (2001)
  2. Daisy Bates (2005)
  3. Race Relations in the Natural State (2007)
  4. Ruled by Race (2008)
  5. Black Boys Burning (2017)
  6. Hypogrif in Bubbaville (2020)

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Expert Testimony

‘Stockley has produced a delightful and intriguing human story. It is to be hoped he will use his newly found talent to dig into his past experiences as background for more such captivating tales.’ASSOCIATED PRESSA prominent Arkansas politico and state senator is murdered, and the babbling, incoherent man accused of the crime has insanity plea written all over him. Everyone, including Gideon Page, the public defender, thinks this case is nailed shut. But Gideon is curious about a few things, and what he discovers is that even the innocent need an airtight alibi, when a simple case of puppy love turns into a fatal affair to remember.

Probable Cause

‘Entertaining…
Fast, fascinating.’THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNEWhen the profits of his law firm dip too low, ex public defender Gideon Page is fired but not before he steals a case that has all the makings of a media nightmare. Dr. Andrew Chapman, a black psychiatrist, is charged with manslaughter when a severely re*tarded girl dies in his care during a risky and some say barbaric elctro shock procedure. When it turns out that the doctor and the girl’s mother were having an affair, the press is about to have a field day. That is, unless Gideon can unravel the many twisted threads of truth, battle a county steeped in racial strife, and lock horns with a tough, ambitious, female prosecutor in a courtroom set to explode…
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Religious Conviction

Leigh Wallace, the knockout daughter of a big time minister, is behind bars, accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Defending her is the county’s legendary and dying trial lawyer, Chet Bracken, who now asks none other than lowly lawyer Gideon Page to help him on the case. Page is ecstatic a victory would solidify his career. Thoughts of victory quickly dissipate as hidden truths about the serpentine case begin to emerge: that Chet has something up his sleeve…
that whatever is up Chet’s sleeve, Page’s own daughter doesn’t want him to find it…
that everyone from bimbos to bible thumpers seem to fit into this case…
and that jealousy, lust, and religious loyalty can be effective roadblocks to rightful conviction…
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Illegal Motion

‘GRIPPING…
Stockley writes with wit, irony, and a good lawyer’s intimate understanding of the daily life of the defense bar and the dynamics of trial. Illegal Motion reads like a thriller and reverberates like the news.’ Entertainment WeeklyWhen small time lawyer Gideon Page agrees to defend Dade Cunningham against charges of rape, he doesn’t realize what he’s taken on. Dade, a star wide receiver for the University of Arkansas, is poor and black; his accuser, a pretty co ed, is wealthy and white. And Gideon is suddenly at the center of a racially and sexually charged case that will earn him enemies on campus and off. Before he even gets to trial, he’ll be dodging the media and the wrath of feminists, contending with naked bigotry and university politics, dealing with the divided loyalties of his daughter, Sarah, and facing long hidden secrets from the past that will put the truth and his own conscience on trial…
.’ The richness of place and character gives punch to the climactic courtroom scene…
Illegal Motion will give courtroom drama fans a pleasantly tense few hours.’ San Jose Mercury News’STOCKLEY KNOWS HIS STUFF.’ Detroit Free Press

Blind Judgment

If you want to be a successful lawyer, what you need are cases you can win and clients who can pay their bills. When Latrice Bledsoe shows up in Gideon Page’s office, she begs him to take her husband’s case he’s been accused of murder and neither his alibi nor the family checkbook will stand up to close examination. Despite a potential loser of a case and despite the popular wisdom that says you can’t go home again, this murder in Bear Creek, Arkansas, the little town where Gideon was born, forces him to ignore all the old rules and take the job. He isn’t taking this one for love or money he’s taking it because it offers him the chance to finally get his revenge on the man who years ago destroyed the Page family business and his mother’s life. But as Gideon prepares for trial, he discovers that not only is his current case more complicated and treacherous than he imagined, but his past is also different from what he remembered. Faced with two mysteries to solve, Gideon finds his hopes of both victory and revenge beginning to fade even as he begins to fall in love with the girl now a woman whom he left behind in Bear Creek almost a lifetime ago.

Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates 1914 1999 is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the most tumultuous civil rights crises of the 1950s, she was selected as Woman of the Year in Education by the Associated Press in 1957 and was the only woman invited to speak at the Lincoln Memorial ceremony in the March on Washington in 1963. But her importance as a historical figure has been overlooked by scholars of the civil rights movement. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas chronicles her life and political advocacy before, during, and well after the Central High School crisis. An orphan from the Arkansas mill town of Huttig, she eventually rose to the zenith of civil rights action. In 1952, she was elected president of the NAACP in Arkansas and traveled the country speaking on political issues. During the 1960s, she worked as a field organizer for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to get out the black vote. Even after a series of strokes, she continued to orchestrate self help and economic initiatives in Arkansas. Using interviews, archival records, contemporary news paper accounts, and other materials, author Grif Stockley reconstructs Bates’s life and career, revealing her to be a complex, contrary leader of the civil rights movement. Ultimately, Daisy Bates paints a vivid portrait of an ardent, overlooked advocate of social justice. Grif Stockley is a staff attorney of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas. He is the author of several books, including Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919, Blind Judgment, Probable Cause, and Expert Testimony. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Race Relations in the Natural State

In this book noted Arkansas historian Grif Stockley Blood in Their Eyes, Daisy Bates presents a clear depiction of the struggles of race and class in Arkansas, using personal stories to give a deeper understanding of the price of racism in Arkansas. The last chapter explores the experiences of Hispanics in the state. Lesson plans developed by the author are available for teachers at www. butlercenter. org..

Ruled by Race

From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state’s formation and image since its founding. Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of those who have both studied and lived the racial experience in Arkansas.

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