This is the inspiring life story of the judge hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr., as "a man who gave true meaning to the word Justice." Thrust into the center of a raging storm over civil rights, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the youngest federal judge in the country at the time of his appointment in 1955. During his twenty-four years on the district court in Montgomery, Alabama, Johnson handed down a string of precedent-setting decisions that helped to dismantle discrimination against African Americans, women, prison inmates, and the mentally ill.