03155nam 2200601 450 991082786450332120200520144314.00-8143-3846-1(CKB)3710000000087762(EBL)3416582(SSID)ssj0001115578(PQKBManifestationID)12462888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115578(PQKBWorkID)11083343(PQKB)10870285(Au-PeEL)EBL3416582(CaPaEBR)ebr10836368(CaONFJC)MIL835310(OCoLC)874160754(MiAaPQ)EBC3416582(EXLCZ)99371000000008776220130816h20142014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrusader for justice federal judge Damon J. Keith /compiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch AlbomDetroit, Michigan :Wayne State University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (0 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8143-3845-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Humble roots: the lawyer and the janitor -- The early education of Damon J. Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!": speaking out, standing strong -- Crusader for justice: into the sunset.JudgesUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American judgesUnited StatesBiographyLawyersUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American lawyersUnited StatesBiographyJudgesAfrican American judgesLawyersAfrican American lawyers347.732Hammer Peter J103974Coleman Trevor W1599668MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827864503321Crusader for justice3922429UNINA