Amazon.com description: Product Description: Available July 2, 2014. A story of civic valor - the willingness to place nation ahead of self and justice ahead of expediency. William Moore McCulloch played a pivotal role in the passage of the major civil rights legislation of the 1960s. The larger story is not what he did, but why, and how. He fought for justice and equality because it was in his nature to do so. The purpose of the fight, he said, was not to achieve victory, but to create the reconciliation that civil society requires.