Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith /
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
[2014]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Crusader for justice : |b federal judge Damon J. Keith / |c compiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Detroit, Michigan : |b Wayne State University Press, |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014 | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Keith, Damon J. |q (Damon Jerome), |d 1922- |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United States. |b Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) |v Biography. |
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| 650 | 0 | |a African American judges |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Lawyers |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American lawyers |z United States |v Biography. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Hammer, Peter J. |t Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith. |d Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014] |h xx, 300 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm |z 9780814338452 |w (OCoLC)ocn813949038 |w (DLC) 2013948123 |
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