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Author | : Steve Suitts |
Publisher | : NewSouth Books |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1603064478 |
Decades after his death, the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black continue to be studied and discussed. This definitive study of Black’s origins and early influences has been 25 years in the making and offers fresh insights into the justice’s character, thought processes, and instincts. Black came out of hardscrabble Alabama hill country, and he never forgot his origins. He was further shaped in the early 20th-century politics of Birmingham, where he set up a law practice and began his political career, eventually rising to the U.S. Senate, from which he was selected by FDR for the high court. Black’s nomination was opposed partly on the grounds that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the book’s conclusions that is sure to be controversial is that in the context of Birmingham in the early 1920s, Black’s joining of the KKK was a progressive act. This startling assertion is supported by an examination of the conflict that was then raging in Birmingham between the Big Mule industrialists and the blue-collar labor unions. Black of course went on to become a staunch judicial advocate of free speech and civil rights, thus making him one of the figures most vilified by the KKK and other white supremacists in the 1950s and 1960s.
Author | : Roger K. Newman |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus, Hugo Black is the first and only comprehensive biography of the Supreme Court Justice of thirty four years, (1886-1971). Once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Black became one of the most celebrated and important civil libertarians in the history of the United States and the chief twentieth-century proponent of the First Amendment. Newman presents us with the long odyssey of Hugo Black, capturing the man as he wasa brilliant trial lawyer, the investigating senator called by one reporter a walking encyclopedia with a Southern accent, and the wily politician and astute justice who led the redirection of American law toward the protection of the individual.
Author | : Tony Allan Freyer |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Longman |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"New in this edition: expanded material on Black's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan provides deeper context, characterizing Black in relationship to Southern Progressivism; a revised Author's Preface reflects on the most recent research on Black's legacy; the updated A Note on the Sources section highlights the most recent scholarship in this revised volume; and Study and Discussion Questions at the end of the book help students check their reading and comprehension. These questions can also be used to facilitate discussions in the classroom or student study groups."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Victor H. Green |
Publisher | : Colchis Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Author | : Brian Selznick |
Publisher | : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1407166573 |
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Author | : Gerald T. Dunne |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067124406X |
From Simon & Schuster, Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution is "one of the prime judicial biographies of our time." (Max Lerner) A native of St. Louis, Professor Dunne is a graduate of Georgetown University and St. Louis University Law School. He is the author of Monetary Decisions of the Supreme Court and Justice Joseph Story and The Rise of the Supreme Court.
Author | : James F. Simon |
Publisher | : Touchstone Books |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780671725037 |
Author | : Hugo LaFayette Black |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Published to honor the centennial of Suoreme Court Justice Hugo Black's birth, this memior is both a revealing look at life in and around the Supreme Court and a moving love story of devoted spouses.
Author | : Keila V. Dawson |
Publisher | : Beaming Books |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1506468926 |
"Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation. In the first picture book about the creation and distribution of The Green Book, author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America.
Author | : Howard Ball |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195078144 |
In this volume, Howard Ball explores Hugo Black's development from his childhood days growing up in Alabama to his 34 years on the United States Supreme Court. Ball illustrates who and what shaped this controversial judge to become known as one of the "ten greatest" US Supreme Court justices of American history.