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1.
The March on Washington : jobs, freedom, and the forgotten history of civil rights / William P. Jones.
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Jones, William Powell, 1970-
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2013.
Contents:
The most dangerous negro in America -- The March on Washington movement -- Rocking the cradle -- Jim Crow unions -- For jobs and freedom -- Battle lines drawn.
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KF4749 .J6 2013
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Lawyer, activist, judge : fighting for civil and voting rights in Mississippi and Illinois / The Hon. Martha A. Mills (Ret.).
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Mills, Martha A., author.
Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, c2015.
Contents:
I was there: the murder of Ben Brown -- Independence, principles, and arrival -- Where are all the lawyers? Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law -- Voting rights I: a citizen's most basic leverage - voting power -- Voting rights II: voter registration efforts and unseating the regulars -- Voting rights III: the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Mississippi Plan, phase II -- Voting rights IV: voter education, elections, problems, and victories -- My month as a volunteer: the first week -- My month as a volunteer: walking the line -- Grenada -- My month as a volunteer: half a world -- My month as a volunteer: finishing out the month -- Moving day -- The Mississippi way: a potpourri -- First major trial: Robert Earl Harris -- Foreign lawyers -- Ben Chester White -- The "Mississippi burning" judge -- Friends and the times -- And then there were the children -- A strum of hope for one boy -- Assorted cases and stories -- I am arrested -- Major legal breakthrough -- Charles Evers, Jackson awakes, and my last few months in Mississippi -- Cairo: ruins of racism -- So, where have we been and where are we going?
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KF373.M5 A3 2015
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The Cold War : law, lawyers, spies, and crises / Arthur T. Downey.
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Downey, Arthur T., author.
Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, [2016]
Contents:
International law -- Subversives and spies, real or imagined -- Presidential war powers -- The economic cold war.
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KF221 .D69 2016 Popular
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4.
The crime of complicity : the bystander in the holocaust / by Amos N. Guiora.
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Guiora, Amos N..
[Chicago :New York : American Bar Association, 2017]
Contents:
Where I come from, who I am -- My family -- Historical background -- Death marches, Holland, and Hungary -- The bystander and the victim -- The crime of complicity -- Duty owed is a legal obligation : the bystander's legal obligation -- Maastricht, The Netherlands : summer 2016 -- Hungary : the ultimate bystander? -- Moving forward : the bystander as crime -- Where do we go from here? -- Appendix : The "Final Solution" : estimated number of Jews killed -- Book club questions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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biography Guiora
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Football fatalities and catastrophic injuries, 1931-2008 / Frederick O. Mueller, Robert C. Cantu.
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Mueller, Frederick O.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.
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KF1290 .S66 M84 2011
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6.
Courting the Yankees : legal essays on the Bronx Bombers / edited by Ettie Ward.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2003.
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KF3989.A75 C68 2003 popular
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7.
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein.
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Rothstein, Richard, author.
New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company [2017]
Contents:
If San Francisco, then everywhere? -- Public housing, black ghettos -- Racial zoning -- "Own your own home" -- Private agreements, government enforcement -- White flight -- Irs support and compliant regulators -- Local tactics -- State-sanctioned violence -- Suppressed incomes -- Looking forward, looking back -- Considering fixes -- Epilogue.
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KF5700 .R8185 2017
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8.
First : Sandra Day O'Connor / Evan Thomas.
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Thomas, Evan, 1951-, author.
New York : Random House, [2019]
Contents:
Lazy B -- Stanford -- The golden couple -- Majority leader -- Arizona judge -- The President call -- Inside the marble palace -- Scrutiny -- FWOTSC -- Cancer -- A woman's role -- Civic religion -- Bush v. Gore -- Affirmative action -- End game -- Labor of love.
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Pierce County Law Library
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KF213 .O25 2019
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