Crusader for justice : : federal judge Damon J. Keith / / compiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom.
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Place / Publishing House: | Detroit, Michigan : : Wayne State University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 pages) :; illustrations |
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Crusader for justice : |b federal judge Damon J. Keith / |c compiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom. |
264 | 1 | |a Detroit, Michigan : |b Wayne State University Press, |c [2014] | |
264 | 4 | |c 2014 | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (369 pages) : |b illustrations | ||
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
600 | 1 | 0 | |a Keith, Damon J. |q (Damon Jerome), |d 1922- |
610 | 1 | 0 | |a United States. |b Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) |v Biography. |
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650 | 0 | |a African American judges |z United States |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Lawyers |z United States |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a African American lawyers |z United States |v Biography. | |
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700 | 1 | |a Coleman, Trevor W. | |
776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Hammer, Peter J. |t Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith. |d Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014] |h xx, 300 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm |z 9780814338452 |w (OCoLC)ocn813949038 |w (DLC) 2013948123 |
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