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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith /
Table of Contents: “…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!"…”
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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 /
Table of Contents: “…Washington at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition ; Plessy v. Ferguson ; The National Association of Colored Women and the American Negro Academy ; Wilmington, North Carolina, race riot of 1898 ; Buffalo soldiers ; War with Spain and for an empire ; Afro-American Council ; W. …”
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"Words for the hour" : a new anthology of American Civil War poetry /
Table of Contents: “…The Vessel of Love, the Vessel of State /…”
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Global feminist ethics /
Table of Contents: “…/ Peter Higgins, Audra King, and April Shaw -- Persons and states -- Nussbaum versus Rawls : should feminist human rights advocates reject the law of peoples and endorse the capabilities approach? …”
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Engendering faith : women and Buddhism in premodern Japan /
Table of Contents: “…The formation and growth of Buddhist nun communities in China / Chikusa Masaaki ; Philip Yampolsky -- Empress Kōmyō's Buddhist faith: her role in the founding of the state temple and convent system / Mikoshiba Daisuke ; Carol Hochstedler -- State Buddhism and court Buddhism: the role of court women in the development of Buddhism from the seventh to the ninth centuries / Hongō Masatsugu ; Massayo Kaneko -- Vicissitudes in the ordination of Japanese "nuns" during the eighth through the tenth centuries / Paul Groner -- Tonsure forms for nuns: classification of nuns according to hairstyle / Katsuura Noriko ; Virginia Skord Waters -- Buddhist convents in medieval Japan / Ushiyama Yoshiyuki ; Anne Dutton -- "Nun shogun": politics and religion in the life of Hōjō Masako (1157-1225) ; Martin Collcutt -- Nuns and other female devotees in Genkō shakusho: Japan's first history of Buddhism / Marian Ury ; Robert Borgen -- Temple divorce in Tokugawa Japan: a survey of documentation on Tōkeiji and Mantokuji / Anne Dutton -- Mantokuji: more than a "divorce temple" / Diana E. …”
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