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Show Me Justice tracks the life and career of the late civil rights advocate and pioneer Alvin Lee Sykes who used his self taught legal knowledge to reopen the dormant murder case of Emmett Till He was also tenacious in his investigation of other unsolved murder cases of African Americans from the civil rights era Typically the people Sykes represented were as poor as he was poor as a church mouse to quote former United States senator Tom Coburn who worked with Alvin on the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act In this book s foreword Ronnique Hawkins co producer of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and founder of The ALM and Learn My History foundations From jazz singer Steve Harvey to the monumental case of fourteen year old Emmett Till Alvin championed for victims like they were family Sykes was born to a fourteen year old girl and placed by relatives in the care of another woman who worked as a domestic and a beautician She recognized his strong curiosity about the world around him and stretched her meager budget to supply books and musical instruments She mortgaged her home to pay the bills to treat his epilepsy and other childhood illnesses. Show Me justiceiras As a young teenager he spent time at Boys Town in Nebraska but his formal education never extended beyond the eighth grade Instead as he says his secondary and higher education took place in public libraries often among shelves of law books In Sykes s hometown of Kansas City and nationwide he remains a legend among the downtrodden whom he helped and also among the powerful who admired his efforts He marshaled his facts framed his arguments persuasively and acted patiently and resolutely Always his goal was justice Typically he reached that goal Show Me Justice The Happy Life Journey of Alvin Lee Sykes An Autobiography