Making The Case For Justice: An Advocate's Journey

We often hear stories about people who experienced some of the worst tragedies of our civic and social systems, and how they courageously fought back to overcome the injustices they both witnessed happening to others while simultaneously  living through them also. In Making The Case For Justice, national education justice  consultant Hakim Crampton captures his thoughts and real time advocacy efforts within his community in a series of thought provoking essays and research articles that span well over 25 years. Hakim opens up with his own personal fight for exoneration for a 1991 wrongful murder arrest and conviction. Hakim then boldly challenges both systems of oppression and biased institutional practices within the criminal legal system, public education, law enforcement and local civic governance.

Drawn from his lived experience of carceral corrections and generational community violence, Hakim is able to capture the nuances and complexities of issues confronting black America and by proxy, the social fabric that makes up the institutional fabric of the United States.. To achieve this Hakim tackles topics such as Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration, The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Education Proficiency, Housing, Civic engagement, Law Enforcement, Classism, Racism and Upward Mobility, College Preparedness, and Closing the Achievement Gap, among other subjects. While being an engaging read of immense interest to social justice advocates, this book will serve to highlight an inside look into an advocate's thoughts, perspectives and philosophical approach to redressing harms within one's own community.