Humble 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.