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  • The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer

    • ASIN: 0813926955
    • ISBN: 0813926955
    • Brand: Brand: University of Virginia Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press

    "It was not until I arrived at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that I learned my profession, how to work with colleagues and clients, and how it might feel to grow up in the law." So begins Michael Meltsner’s vivid account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of... [Read More]

  • A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees

    • ASIN: 068419189X
    • ISBN: 068419189X
    • Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons

    The grandson of a Klansman, who engineered the landmark civil suit that bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan, recounts the story of his battles against racism in the New South

  • Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

    • ASIN: 0226768341
    • ISBN: 0226768341
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, Lawyers of the Right explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups—social conservatives, libertarians, and business advocates—that have coalesced in recent decades behind the Republican Party. Drawing on i... [Read More]

  • The Politics of Rights: Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change

    • ASIN: 0472030051
    • ISBN: 0472030051
    • Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press

    Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning... [Read More]

  • Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom (Southern Biography Series)

    • ASIN: 0807133841
    • ISBN: 0807133841
    • Brand: Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr
    • Manufacturer: LSU Press

    One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American South. In this revealing biography, law professor... [Read More]

  • Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

    • ASIN: 0472033107
    • ISBN: 0472033107
    • Brand: University of Michigan Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press

    "David Kairys is one of the grand long-distance runners in the struggle for justice in America. His brilliant legal mind and superb lawyerly skills are legendary. This marvelous book is his gift to us!" ---Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Princeton University, and award-winning author of Race Matters Philadelphia Fr... [Read More]

  • Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    • ASIN: 0375760210
    • ISBN: 0375760210
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar. “[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us ha... [Read More]

  • The March for Civil Rights: The Benjamin Hooks Story

    • ASIN: 159031249X
    • ISBN: 159031249X
    • Brand: Brand: American Bar Association
    • Manufacturer: American Bar Association

    The author recounts his inspiring leadership role in the ongoing struggle for civil rights and racial equality in America and abroad.

  • The Best Lawyer Are Born In August: Attorney at Law Composition Notebook: Funny, Legal Humor College Ruled Book, 100 pages (50 Sheets) 6 x 9 (Law Student Gift Ideas)

    • ASIN: 1088934315
    • ISBN: 1088934315
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Perfect bound soft cover, professionally designed ruled student composition notebook makes a unique gift idea for paralegal, law student, attorney, lawyer, or judge. Anyone can use this as an inspirational writing journal, Christmas party exchange gift, or as a composition book at any academic University or High School. Designed and printed in the ... [Read More]

  • The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective

    • ASIN: 0226211622
    • ISBN: 0226211622
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced "rights revolutions" as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested ... [Read More]

  • Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

    • ASIN: 0195104684
    • ISBN: 0195104684
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could march on Selma to register voters, the Supreme Court... [Read More]

  • There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior

    • ASIN: 1557288488
    • ISBN: 1557288488
    • Brand: Brand: University of Arkansas Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press

    Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he “devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people.” There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas Law School and which took him to the highest levels of busines... [Read More]

  • Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall

    • ASIN: 006198518X
    • ISBN: 006198518X
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

    “[An] important collection….Michael G. Long deserves high praise indeed for unearthing [Marshall’s letters] and bringing them to light.”—Wil HaygoodCollected together for the first time in Marshalling Justice, here are selected letters written by one of the most influential and important activists in the American Civil Rights movement: th... [Read More]

  • Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Lawyer and Supreme Court Justice (Signature Lives: Modern America)

    • ASIN: 0756518776
    • ISBN: 0756518776
    • Brand: Brand: Compass Point Books
    • Manufacturer: Compass Point Books

    From the late 19th century into the 21st century, technological and cultural advancements transformed the world into a new and modern place. These advancements changed the way people lived, worked, and thought about themselves and the world. The combination of all these changes continues to produce what we know as the modern world. Thurgood Marshal... [Read More]

  • The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

    • ASIN: 039471380X
    • ISBN: 039471380X
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    "Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book." --Truman CapoteIn this tell-all legal memoir, Alan Dershowitz describes his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients. In the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.

  • Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement

    • ASIN: 0813326184
    • ISBN: 0813326184
    • Brand: Brand: Westview Press
    • Manufacturer: Westview Press

  • Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973

    • ASIN: 0300064241
    • ISBN: 0300064241
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    During the 1960s a new breed of "poverty lawyers"―in collaboration with welfare recipient activists―mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. The collaboration worked significant changes in the social welfare system of the United States and in the scope of individual constitutional rights. In this book, Martha F. Dav... [Read More]

  • Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944

    • ASIN: 0812216857
    • ISBN: 0812216857
    • Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    "Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the challenges that lie ahead."—From the Foreword, by Justice Thu... [Read More]

  • The Best Lawyers Are Born in November: Lawyer Notebook Journal Blanked Lined Planner Gifts Diary For Male And Female

    • ASIN: 1074797582
    • ISBN: 1074797582
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    A Magnificent Gift for Lawyer!This is  Remarkable  appreciational notebook or journal for Lawyer. It is the perfect way to express your gratitude to the best Lawyer ever! 120 sheets of lined paper, this motivational and inspirational notebook with quote makes a memorable (and useful) gift for nurses. A beautifully made Journal, with ... [Read More]

  • A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights

    • ASIN: 0195147154
    • ISBN: 0195147154
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.S. District Court Judge Julius Waties Waring shocked family, friends, and an entire state in 1945 when, at age sixty-five, he divorced his wife of more than thirty years and embarked upon... [Read More]

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