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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.
Van Pelt Library KF373.K44 H36 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammer, Peter J., author.
- Coleman, Trevor W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922-2019.
- Keith, Damon J.
- United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit).
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- African American lawyers.
- African American judges.
- United States.
- African American judges--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- African American lawyers--United States--Biography.
- United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 300 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814338452
- 0814338453
- OCLC:
- 813949038
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