LEADER 03441nam 2200505 450 001 9910818307403321 005 20170919175031.0 010 $a1-62097-071-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000679338 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001667977 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16456613 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001667977 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15002069 035 $a(PQKB)10298394 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4471782 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000679338 100 $a20160530h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnswering the call $ea memoir of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America /$fNathaniel R. Jones ; foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 210 1$aNew York, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cThe New Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (433 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62097-075-9 327 $aThe call -- My early life -- Becoming a Civil Rights Activist -- Family, marriages, and faith -- Political solutions to racial tensions -- Cutting my teeth as NAACP general counsel -- Desegregation and the road to the North : Shifting legal strategies--from Plessy to Sweatt to Brown -- Beyond De Facto/De Jure : the northern school desegregation cases -- The road to the court -- Continuing the struggle, on the bench -- Beyond the United States -- Beyond the bench -- Life after the bench -- Justice Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Double Cross -- Obama : election reflections. 330 $a"Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America-a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most notable setbacks in the affirmative action debates that continue into the present in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond. Judge Nathaniel R. Jones's pathbreaking career was forged in the 1960s: as the first African American assistant U.S. attorney in Ohio; as assistant general counsel of the Kerner Commission; and, beginning in 1969, as general counsel of the NAACP. In that latter role, Jones coordinated attacks against Northern school segregation-a vital, divisive, and poorly understood chapter in the movement for equality-twice arguing in the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case Bradley v. Milliken, which addressed school desegregation in Detroit. He also led the national response to the attacks against affirmative action, spearheading and arguing many of the signal legal cases of that effort. Judge Jones's story is an essential corrective to the idea of a post-racial America--his voice and his testimony offering enduring evidence of the unfinished work of ending Jim Crow's legacy. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJudges$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aJudges 615 0$aCivil rights$xHistory. 676 $a347.73/2434 686 $aBIO020000$aLAW013000$aHIS036060$aHIS036070$2bisacsh 700 $aJones$b Nathaniel R.$f1926-$01707857 702 $aHigginbotham$b Evelyn Brooks 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818307403321 996 $aAnswering the call$94096384 997 $aUNINA