Crusader for Justice : : Federal Judge Damon J. Keith
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: xx, 300 p., 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780814338452
0814338453
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Coleman, Trevor W.,
Albom, Mitch, 1958-
SUBJECTS
Keith, Damon J. -- 1922-
United States. -- Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) -- Biography.
Judges -- United States -- Biography.
African American judges -- United States -- Biography.
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
African American lawyers -- United States -- Biography.