Raymond Pace Alexander: a new Negro lawyer fights for civil rights in Philadelphia
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1. Verfasser: Canton, David A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The origin of a new Negro lawyer, 1898-1924 -- Using the left to fight for what is right : civil rights law and radicalism, 1925-1935 -- Making a national movement local : the civil rights struggle in Philadelphia, 1936-1948 -- The Cold War, northern Scottsboro, and the politics of civil rights, 1949-1953 -- Participating in the civil rights movement from the bench, 1954-1964 -- A new Negro judge in black power America, 1965-1974
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston, William Hastie, and Thurgood Marshall, Alexander litigated civil rights cases and became well known in Philadelphia. Yet his legacy to the civil rights struggle has received little national recognition
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