Crusader for Justice : Federal Judge Damon J. Keith.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Crusader for Justice -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Humble Roots: The Lawyer and the Janitor -- 2 The Early Education of Damon J. Keith -- 3 College Life: West Virginia State College -- 4 "The Finest Man I've Ever Known" -- 5 1943: War in the Streets/War Overseas -- 6 Howard University School of Law: The West Point of Civil Rights -- 7 Leaping the Bar -- 8 Rachel -- 9 Taking a Chance: Life as a Young Lawyer -- 10 A Room on the Second Floor: Rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- 11 "Get Out on Your Own": How Damon Keith Became His Own Start-Up -- Photo Insert 1 -- 12 A Leader Emerges: From Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- 13 Detroit 1967: The Fire This Time -- 14 Approaching the Bench: The Long and Winding Politics of Becoming a Judge -- 15 Into the Maelstrom: Busing in Pontiac -- 16 Housing in Hamtramck and Discrimination at Detroit Edison -- 17 Taking on the Nixon White House: The Keith Case -- Photo Insert 2 -- 18 Affirmative Action in the Detroit Police Department -- 19 "Tell Him Thurgood's on the Line" -- 20 "Here, Boy, Park This Car" -- 21 Strange Bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- 22 Swimming Upstream: Ideological and Political Shifts in the Courts -- 23 "Democracies Die Behind Closed Doors" -- 24 The Keith Law Clerk Family -- Photo Insert 3 -- 25 Friends along the Way: From Rosa to Russia -- 26 "I Don't Work on Your Plantation!": Speaking Out, Standing Strong -- 27 Crusader for Justice: Into the Sunset -- A Note on Sources -- Index.

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