Come and meet and listen to local Author, Michael Meltsner, speak about his book;  A life changing true crime story, the book, Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?  tells the compelling story of the sixties murder of a charismatic doctor who courted danger trying to dismantle a racially segregated healthcare system in a large southern city. The search for who ordered the killing takes her civil rights lawyer-lover to the centers of power, forcing him to confront the meaning of revenge for a crime that occurs at the intersection of hate and greed, after a well planned government intervention goes deadly wrong. 

Michael Meltsner is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Northeastern University and the was first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1960s. From 1970-79 he was a professor of law at Columbia Law School, where he co-founded the clinical program. He served as dean of Northeastern Law School from 1979 until 1984. His memoir, The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer, was published in 2006 (University of Virginia Press).  Meltsner, who is also a licensed marriage and family therapist, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977. He has served as a consultant to the Department of Justice, the Ford Foundation and the Legal Action Center and has lectured in Canada, Egypt, Germany, India, the Netherlands and South Africa. In 2000, he was named a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. From 2000--05 he was a visiting professor and director of the First-Year Lawyering Program at Harvard Law School. In 2010, he received the Hugo Bedau Award for excellence in death penalty scholarship. In recognition of his death penalty work, in 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by John Jay College (CUNY).