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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / / compiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom



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Autore: Hammer Peter J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / / compiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 p.)
Disciplina: 347.732
Soggetto topico: Judges - United States
African American judges - United States
Lawyers - United States
African American lawyers - United States
Altri autori: ColemanTrevor W  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Crusader for justice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8143-3846-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789121003321
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