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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Hammer Peter J
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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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| 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
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8143-3846-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827864503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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