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Bryan A. Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law. Stevenson has gained national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system. Stevenson has assisted in securing relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice. ==Early life== Born in 1959, Stevenson grew up in Milton, Delaware, located in Southern Delaware. Stevenson is the son of Howard Carlton Stevenson, Sr. and Alice Gertrude Golden Stevenson.〔 Stevenson has two siblings: an older brother, Howard, Jr. and a sister, Christy. Stevenson's father, Howard Stevenson, Sr., worked at the General Foods processing plant as a laboratory technician.〔 His mother, Alice, was a bookkeeper at Dover Air Force Base.〔 Stevenson's family attended the Prospect African Methodist Episcopal Church where Stevenson played piano and sang in the choir.〔 His later views were influenced by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where churchgoers were celebrated for standing up after having fallen down.〔 These experiences informed his belief that "each person in our society is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.”〔 When Stevenson was sixteen, his maternal grandfather, Clarence L. Golden, was stabbed to death in his Philadelphia home during a burglary. The killers received life sentences, an outcome Stevenson thought fair. Stevenson said of the murders: "Because my grandfather was older, his murder seemed particularly cruel. But I came from a world where we valued redemption over revenge."〔 Stevenson experienced segregation and its legacy as a child. He spent his first classroom days at a "colored" elementary school.〔 By the time he entered the second grade, his school was formally desegregated but the old rules from segregation still applied, where black kids played separately from white kids and blacks were forced to used the back door.〔 Stevenson's father, having grown up in the area, took the ingrained racism in stride.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bryan Stevenson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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