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Shades of Freedom
Noted scholar and jurist Higginbotham (Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Harvard U.) surveys the history of law and race in America from the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619 to the present, arguing that while some progress has been made toward racial equality, the judicial system continues to play a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Federal Judges Revealed
The power and influence of the federal judiciary has been widely discussed and understood. And while there have been a fair number of institutional studies-studies of individual district courts or courts of appeal--there have been very few studies of the judiciary that emphasize the judges themselves. Federal Judges Revealed considers approximately one hundred oral histories of Article Three judges, extracting the most important information, and organizing it around a series of presented topics such as "How judges write their opinions" and "What judges believe make a good lawyer."
Shades of Freedom
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history of race and the American legal process. Published in 1978, this brilliant book has been hailed as the definiti...
The Philadelphia Civil Rights Activists and Community Advocates, 1950-2000
The lives and legacies of Philadelphia leaders active between 1950 and 2000.
African American Lives
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subje...
NAACP
The NAACP is built on the collective courage of thousands of people of all races, nationalities, and faiths united in one premise—that all men and women are created equal. Now celebrating its one-hundred-year anniversary, the nation's oldest civil rights organization is captured in this visually stunning and groundbreaking book.
Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture [4 volumes]
This four-volume encyclopedia contains compelling and comprehensive information on African American popular culture that will be valuable to high school students and undergraduates, college instructors, researchers, and general readers. From the Apollo Theater to the Harlem Renaissance, from barber shop and beauty shop culture to African American holidays, family reunions, and festivals, and from the days of black baseball to the era of a black president, the culture of African Americans is truly unique and diverse. This diversity is the result of intricate customs forged in tightly woven communities—not only in the United States, but in many cases also stemming from the traditions of anot...
