Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America /

"Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America-a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Nathaniel R., 1926-2020 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (author of foreward.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : The New Press, [2016]
Temas:
Jones, Nathaniel R., > 1926-2020.
Jones, Nathaniel R., > 1926-2020
Judges > United States > Biography.
Civil rights > United States > History.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
LAW > Civil Rights.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
HISTORY > United States > 21st century.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Civil rights
Judges
United States
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Why this book?
  • The call
  • My early life
  • Becoming a Civil Rights activist
  • Family, marriages, and faith
  • Political solutions to racial tensions
  • Cutting my teeth as NAACP General Counsel
  • Desegregation and the road to the North: shifting legal strategies, from Plessy to Sweatt to Brown
  • Beyond de facto/de jure: the Northern school desegregation cases
  • The road to the Court
  • Continuing the struggle, on the bench
  • Beyond the United States
  • Beyond the bench
  • Life after the bench
  • Justice Clarence Thomas and the Supreme double cross
  • Obama: election reflections.

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