Table of Contents:
“…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!"…”
Call Number: KF373.K44 H36 2014
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