Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Lewis Steel to present the new book "The Butler's Child: An Autobiography."
A descendant of the Hollywood powerhouse Warner Brothers family, Steel dedicated himself not to show business but to social justice. His memoir chronicles the complicated relationship with his family’s butler which sparked his early awareness of racism, then recounts his decades as an uncompromising civil rights lawyer. Steel worked with the NAACP for many years, and he provides a valuable look at the organization during the peak of the Civil Rights era, a period during which he developed another important formative relationship, this one with the NAACP general counsel Robert L. Carter. Now senior counsel to Outten & Golden LLP, Steel continues his work with class action cases devoted to race and gender discrimination.
Sep 16, 2026 3:00 pm
