Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
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- ISBN: 9781620970751
- ISBN: 1620970759
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xvii, 414 pages ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York : The New Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-396) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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