The first two books in the Voice of Witness series of oral histories focus on the victims of domestic human-rights crises.
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated features the accounts of thirteen men and women sent to prison for someone else's crime. These powerful stories, told by people from all walks of life,
demonstrate how easily wrongful conviction can occur and how difficult it is to prove one's innocence in the American justice system. Moreover, it gives us a glimpse into what life is like after exoneration, and how re-assembling a fragmented life can be the hardest struggle of all for victims of wrongful conviction.
Voices from the Storm presents thirteen New Orleans residents whose lives were effectively destroyed by the U.S. government's disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. Abandoned in a city submerged in floodwaters, the narrators of Voices from the Storm were forced to fend for themselves in the harshest of conditions. Their terrible ordeal illuminates the racial and economic rifts that continue to plague American society.
Both books are available in a bundle for $25.
