| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 300 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922-2019
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| SUBJECT |
Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922-2019 fast |
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United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) fast |
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Judges -- United States -- Biography
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African American judges -- United States -- Biography
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Lawyers -- United States -- Biography
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African American lawyers -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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African American judges
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African American lawyers
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Judges
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Lawyers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coleman, Trevor W., author
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Albom, Mitch, 1958- writer of preface.
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| ISBN |
9780814338469 |
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0814338461 |
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