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000715062 1001_ $$aHammer, Peter J.
000715062 24510 $$aCrusader for justice$$h[electronic resource] :$$bfederal judge Damon J. Keith /$$ccompiled, written, and edited by Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman ; foreword by Mitch Albom.
000715062 264_1 $$aDetroit, Michigan :$$bWayne State University Press,$$c[2014]
000715062 264_4 $$c©2014
000715062 300__ $$a1 online resource (369 pages) :$$billustrations
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000715062 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000715062 5050_ $$aHumble roots: the lawyer and the janitor -- The early education of Damon J. Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!": speaking out, standing strong -- Crusader for justice: into the sunset.
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000715062 60010 $$aKeith, Damon J.$$q(Damon Jerome),$$d1922-
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