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| 100 | 1 | _aHammer, Peter J. | |
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_aCrusader for justice : _bfederal judge Damon J. Keith / _ccompiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom. |
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_aDetroit, Michigan : _bWayne State University Press, _c[2014] |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aHumble 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 | _aDescription based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
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_aKeith, Damon J. _q(Damon Jerome), _d1922- |
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_aUnited States. _bCourt of Appeals (6th Circuit) _vBiography. |
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_aAfrican American judges _zUnited States _vBiography. |
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_aAfrican American lawyers _zUnited States _vBiography. |
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| 700 | 1 | _aColeman, Trevor W. | |
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_iPrint version: _aHammer, Peter J. _tCrusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith. _dDetroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014] _hxx, 300 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm _z9780814338452 _w(OCoLC)ocn813949038 _w(DLC) 2013948123 |
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