Under Color of Law

Under Color of Law
Author: A. Dwight Pettit
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1462056407

Building on the backdrop of his involvement in three important civil-rights cases, author A. Dwight Pettit narrates his personal story from the 1940s to the present in Under Color of Law. A successful civil-rights, constitutional, and criminal lawyer, Pettit focuses on the meaning of these cases for himself, his family, and the nation. As a direct legal descendent and beneficiary of Brown v. Board of Education, Pettit shares its relevance to his education and to his career as a civil-rights lawyer. His memoir details a host of milestones, including an early childhood in the black community and a sudden transition into a tense, all-white world at Aberdeen High School where he was admitted by order of the U.S. District Court. He recalls his time at Howard University as well as the major litigation and representation in which he was involved as a lawyer, focusing in particular on his father's case which involved the treatment, torment and retaliation his father experienced at his job for bringing his son's desegregation lawsuit to trial. Attorney Pettit's memoir also traces his involvement in politics, especially his intimate role in the Jimmy Carter 1976 presidential campaign and the Carter administration. Providing insight into past and current civil-rights issues, Under Color of Law underscores the Pettit family's pursuit of justice in the context of the drive for equal rights for all. "One of the most emotional, fascinating books I have read. ... From start to finish, this book will have you question law as we know it and ask, in terms of racism and prejudice in America, 'Has anything really changed?'" -"Zinah" Mary Brown, CEO, Elocution Productions

United States Code

United States Code
Author: United States
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Author: Richard Rothstein
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1631492861

New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

Under Color of Law

Under Color of Law
Author: Aaron Philip Clark
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781542030182

The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect in this relevant, razor-sharp novel of suspense. Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and fix a broken department. A fast-track promotion to detective in the coveted Robbery-Homicide Division puts him closer to achieving his goal. Four years later, calls for police accountability rule the headlines. The city is teeming with protests for racial justice. When the body of a murdered black academy recruit is found in the Angeles National Forest, Finn is tasked to investigate. As pressure mounts to solve the crime and avoid a PR nightmare, Finn scours the underbelly of a volatile city where power, violence, and race intersect. But it's Finn's past experience as a beat cop that may hold the key to solving the recruit's murder. The price? The end of Finn's career...or his life.

The Color of Law

The Color of Law
Author: Steve Babson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814334966

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases. In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor. His remarkable career put him at the center of the struggle for social justice in the twentieth century, from the sit-down strikes of the 1930s to the Red Scare of the 1950s to the freedom struggles, anti-war demonstrations, and ghetto rebellions of the 1960s and 1970s. The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights traces Goodman's journey through these tumultuous events and highlights the many moments when changing perceptions of social justice clashed with legal precedent. Authors Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, and David Elsila tell Goodman's life story, beginning with his formative years as the son of immigrant parents in Detroit's Jewish ghetto, to his early ambitions as a corporate lawyer, and his conversion to socialism and labor law during the Great Depression. From Detroit to Mississippi, Goodman saw police and other officials giving the "color of law" to actions that stifled freedom of speech and nullified the rights of workers and minorities. The authors highlight Goodman's landmark cases in defense of labor and civil rights and examine the complex relationships he developed along the way with individuals like Supreme Court Justice and former Michigan governor Frank Murphy, UAW president Walter Reuther, Detroit mayor Coleman Young, and congressman George Crockett. Drawing from a rich collection of letters, oral histories, court records, and press accounts, the authors re-create the compelling story of Goodman's life. The Color of Law demonstrates that the abuse of power is non-partisan and that individuals who oppose injustice can change the course of events.

Under the Color of Law

Under the Color of Law
Author: Michael McGarrity
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101212195

Newly-installed Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives a deadly welcome when a U.S. ambassador's ex-wife is brutally stabbed to death in her home. But before Kerney can begin to investigate, the FBI closes the case with trumped-up evidence. And the harder Kerney hunts for the truth, the more he knows that he may not survive the chase.

The Color of the Law

The Color of the Law
Author: Gail Williams O'Brien
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807882305

On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them. By day's end, more than one hundred African Americans had been jailed. Two days later, highway patrolmen killed two of the arrestees while they were awaiting release from jail. Drawing on oral interviews and a rich array of written sources, Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot," the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. In the process, she illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the United States. O'Brien argues that the Columbia events are emblematic of a nationwide shift during the 1940s from mob violence against African Americans to increased confrontations between blacks and the police and courts. As such, they reveal the history behind such contemporary conflicts as the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases.

Under Color of Law

Under Color of Law
Author: A. Dwight Pettit
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 149177701X

Building on the backdrop of his involvement in three important civil-rights cases, author A. Dwight Pettit narrates his personal story from the 1940s to the present in Under Color of Law. A successful civil-rights, constitutional, and criminal lawyer, Pettit focuses on the meaning of these cases for himself, his family, and the nation. As a direct legal descendent and beneficiary of Brown v. Board of Education, Pettit shares its relevance to his education and to his career as a civil-rights lawyer. His memoir details a host of milestones, including an early childhood in the black community and a sudden transition into a tense, all-white world at Aberdeen High School where he was admitted by order of the U.S. District Court. He recalls his time at Howard University as well as the major litigation and representation in which he was involved as a lawyer, focusing in particular on his fathers case which involved the treatment, torment and retaliation his father experienced at his job for bringing his sons desegregation lawsuit to trial. Attorney Pettits memoir also traces his involvement in politics, especially his intimate role in the Jimmy Carter 1976 presidential campaign and the Carter administration. Providing insight into past and current civil-rights issues, Under Color of Law underscores the Pettit familys pursuit of justice in the context of the drive for equal rights for all. One of the most emotional, fascinating books I have read. From start to finish, this book will have you question law as we know it and ask, in terms of racism and prejudice in America, Has anything really changed? Zinah Mary Brown, CEO, Elocution Productions

Skullduggery: Under Color of Law

Skullduggery: Under Color of Law
Author: Tiwanda ''Ne Ne' Lovelace
Publisher: 7 West Publishing and Seven West Productions, LLC
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2022-07-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

My name is Tiwanda Lovelace and I am the daughter of a man convicted of allegedly killing a police officer. I have been subjected to years of unaddressed deprivations. I declare and attest to the information provided within and at the following links are true and correct! The supporting documentation can be found https://mega.nz/#F!HjolFYiD!6g220woQqxtU1B6lYQMkFw. I have had no peace and in 2021, the use of technology to harass and induce harm has not changed, nor subsided. I have been harassed, subjected to illegal privacy violations and deprivation of all rights and suffered wrongful vilification, for decades without any shield! Let me be clear, we do not need more laws. We need the laws to be enforced for ALL, equally. Per the FBI file, their Involvement should have ended upon my return to GA but it continued for years, without justification. If the FBI's presence was lawful, why not communicate or assist with the enforcement of laws to uphold human and civil rights? These dates that have been sealed by court order were consistent with events and allegations of violations. Instead of preventing the numerous allegations of rape, deprivation, degradation and rights violation, they did nothing but watch! When these allegations and concerns of unlawful privacy violations led to my request for a copy of my FBI file under F.O.I.A. (Freedom of Information Act). The FBI responded by getting a Court Order to Seal...WHY? In decades of blatant disregard for human and civil rights, the only actions were to 'Under color of Law' cover up and hide their knowledge of atrocities... I have traveled domestic and abroad, seeking assistance in stopping the abuse of power. However, as an unaligned and sacrificed African American female, (facing all of the 'Isms' of this world), I have received absolutely NO SUPPORT from any groups, organizations or entities. Maybe your organizations will have better luck utilizing the supporting documentation that exposes decades of willful, corruption, deliberate deprivation of rights and blatant abuse of power! If I don't do this and require proper resolution, I will find myself still under a pressure from those racists who are in positions of power, male chauvinist who are quick to' sacrifice,' which is up to and including Officials and officers, forever." Besides that, you'll find later in this book I have plans to address power of attorney reform and add some ideas to police reform but to include conflict of interest for officers embedded in billion-dollar Industries. These officials are not trying to do the right thing and I know for a certainty how much musical copyrights and royalties should have been approximately. I know how much the online publishing should have been due to all of those third-party sellers, while each reported no sales. In addition, the fact that I believe someone in position actually went and held someone accountable for these very same violations... all while keeping me destitute. I'm trying to provide an opportunity to be able to have a public record of the atrocities that have been willfully and deliberately been allowed and supported through inaction of those in positions. Clearly, those in opposition to my freedom have been supporting culprits for decades. It is really sad that it is commonplace for such behavior.

Color of Law

Color of Law
Author: David Milofsky
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2000-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1607321637

This is a rich, absorbing novel about good, evil, and the inability of the legal system to mediate between the two. Two white Milwaukee motorcycle cops pursue and kill a young black man on a bitterly cold winter night in 1959 and with the help of their su