Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith /

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"The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Cr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammer, Peter J.
Otros Autores: Coleman, Trevor W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Keith, Damon J. > (Damon Jerome), > 1922-2019.
Keith, Damon J. > (Damon Jerome), > 1922-2019
United States. > Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) > Biography.
United States. > Court of Appeals (6th Circuit)
Judges > United States > Biography.
African American judges > United States > Biography.
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
African American lawyers > United States > Biography.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Juges noirs américains > États-Unis > Biographies.
Avocats > États-Unis > Biographies.
Avocats noirs américains > États-Unis > Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
African American judges
African American lawyers
Judges
Lawyers
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
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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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