Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith /
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс eКнига |
| Язык: | английский |
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
[2014]
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Оглавление:
- 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.