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Author : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783784182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Minis Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322858
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Defending Constitutional Rights written by Frank Minis Johnson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important civil rights and liberties cases in twentieth-century American history. During the 1950s and 1960s, his decisions supported Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights fighters in their struggles for justice and equality. Johnson extended the Constitutional defense of individual rights for women, students, prisoners, mental health patients, poor criminal defendants, and voters during his active judicial career in Alabama and the South, which lasted until 1991. This collection assembles some of Johnson's most thought-provoking and insightful essays, many of which explain and defend a number of his decisions. Also included in this volume is the first published transcript of a 1980 public television interview with Bill Moyers. Meticulously detailed and documented, yet accessible to a wide range of readers, this book explores the constitutional ideals that Johnson forged and defended as he persistently overcame public officials' resistance to constitutional rights and social change.
Author : Robert Francis Kennedy
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr written by Robert Francis Kennedy and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the federal judge who fought for the cause of civil rights in Alabama.
Author : Michael J. Klarman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880921
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights written by Michael J. Klarman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to racial change than for encouraging direct-action protest. Brown unquestioningly had a significant impact--it brought race issues to public attention and it mobilized supporters of the ruling. It also, however, energized the opposition. In this authoritative account of constitutional law concerning race, Michael Klarman details, in the richest and most thorough discussion to date, how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.
Author : Frank Sikora
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588381587
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Judge written by Frank Sikora and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the black drive for civil rights, but the changes he sought came largely in legal opinions issued by federal judges. Foremost of these was Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., of Montgomery, Alabama, who presided over some of the most emotional hearings and trials of the rights movement--hearings brimming with dramatic and poignant testimony from the black people who cried out for the freedoms that are the legacy of all Americans. Beginning with Judge Johnson's coming-of-age in the hill country of Winston County, Alabama, this book covers many of his notable cases: the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom Rides, school desegregation, the Selma-to-Montgomery march, and the night-rider slaying of Viola Liuzzo, as well as Johnson's work for prisoners, women, and the mentally ill. Much of the book is comprised of interviews and direct quotes from Johnson himself, making this recounting of Judge Johnson's life dynamically autobiographical. Includes a new introduction and afterword by the author, Frank Sikora.
Author : Joseph Bagley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354198
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Politics of White Rights written by Joseph Bagley and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense of white privilege, placing them in the vanguard of a new conservatism oriented toward the Sunbelt, not the South. Scholars have recently begun uncovering the ways in which segregationists abandoned violent backlash and overt economic reprisal and learned how to rearticulate their resistance and blind others to their racial motivations. Bagley is most interested in a creedal commitment to maintaining "law and order," which lay at the heart of this transition. Before it was a buzz phrase meant to conjure up fears of urban black violence, "law and order" represented a politics that allowed self-styled white moderates to begrudgingly accept token desegregation and to begin to stake their own claims to constitutional rights without forcing them to repudiate segregation or white supremacy. Federal courts have, as recently as 2014, agreed that Alabama's property tax system is crippling black education. Bagley argues that this is because, in the late 1960s, the politics of law and order became a politics of white rights, which supported not only white flight to suburbs and private schools but also nominally color-blind changes in the state's tax code. These changes were designed to shield white money from the needs of increasingly black public education. Activists and courts have been powerless to do anything about them, because twenty years of desperate litigious combat finally taught Alabama lawmakers how to erect constitutional bulwarks that could withstand a legal assault.
Author : Jefferson Cowie
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 154167281X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) written by Jefferson Cowie and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
Author : Gary May
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129998
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Informant written by Gary May and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An FBI’s informant’s role in the murder of a civil rights activist by the KKK is explored in this “suspenseful and vigorously reported” history (Baltimore Sun). In 1965, Detroit housewife Viola Liuzzo drove to Alabama to help organize Martin Luther King’s Voting Rights March from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. But after the march’s historic success, Liuzzo was shot to death by members of the Birmingham Ku Klux Klan. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the Klansman present during the shooting was Gary Thomas Rowe, an undercover FBI informant. At the time, Rowe’s information and testimony were heralded as a triumph of law enforcement. But as Gary May reveals in this provocative book, Rowe’s history of collaboration with both the Klan and the FBI was far more complex. Based on previously unexamined FBI and Justice Department Records, The Informant demonstrates that in their ongoing efforts to protect Rowe’s cover, the FBI knowingly became an accessory to some of the most grotesque crimes of the Civil Rights era—including a vicious attack on the Freedom Riders and perhaps even the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. A tale of a renegade informant and a tragically dysfunctional intelligence system, The Informant offers a dramatic cautionary tale about what can happen when secret police power goes unchecked.
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135947058
Total Pages : 2194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties written by Paul Finkelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 2194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia on American history and law is the first devoted to examining the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties. Coverage includes the traditional civil liberties: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. In addition, it also covers concerns such as privacy, the rights of the accused, and national security. Alphabetically organized for ease of access, the articles range in length from 250 words for a brief biography to 5,000 words for in-depth analyses. Entries are organized around the following themes: organizations and government bodies legislation and legislative action, statutes, and acts historical overviews biographies cases themes, issues, concepts, and events. The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties is an essential reference for students and researchers as well as for the general reader to help better understand the world we live in today.
Author : Jack Bass
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325316
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Taming the Storm written by Jack Bass and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrust into the center of a raging storm over civil rights, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the youngest federal judge in the country at the time of his appointment in 1955. During his twenty-four years on the district court in Montgomery, Alabama, Johnson handed down a string of precedent-setting decisions that were vastly unpopular at the time but that would prove to have profound consequences for America's future. Not only did Johnson's trailblazing opinions greatly expand the access of African Americans to their constitutional rights, but his opinions also helped to dismantle discrimination against women, prison inmates, and the mentally ill. Johnson paid a heavy price for his judicial vision, however, for he had to endure public scorn, death threats, and the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values to be under siege. Eventually Johnson prevailed, winning honor even in his native Alabama and a respected place in the history of the civil rights movement. Taming the Storm is the story of an authentic American hero and the era he did so much to define.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book H.R. 2539 (designating the Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Trenton, NJ) ... and Lease Resolutions for Washington, DC, and Montgomery County, MD written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry W. Yackle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363418
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Reform and Regret written by Larry W. Yackle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the deplorable conditions in Alabama's prisons were revealed at trial in 1975, Judge Frank Johnson declared the prison system as a whole to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment. He then issued an elaborate decree specifying improvements that must be made to satisfy constitutional standards. In this study, Larry W. Yackle describes the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through constitutional litigation in the federal courts and surveys the process that produced Johnson's decree, and subsequent efforts to enforce his order in the face of bureaucratic inertia, administrative incompetence, and political demagogy. A decade later, the prisons showed significant physical improvements, but Alabama's resistance to progressive penal policies remained intact and impeded lasting change. Covering the lawyers' strategies, Judge Johnson's creative actions, and the machinations of state and federal officials including the Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan, this book conveys the frustrating yet effective effort at prison litigation and offers important lessons for other proponents of penal reform across the country.
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351269798
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006) written by Paul Finkelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.
Author : Jeffrey Brandon Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019977241X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Leadership on the Federal Bench written by Jeffrey Brandon Morris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein, author Jeffrey Morris presents readers with a study of Jack Weinstein as a district judge. By examining Weinstein's decisions and other writings, his conception of the judicial function, his beliefs, values, and competence, the book illuminates the work of federal district judges as whole.
Author : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher : Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mr. Justice Black and His Critics written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many jurists give lip service to the idea that judicial interpretation of constitutional provisions should be based on the intent of the framers. Few, if any, have been as faithful to that conception as Hugo Black, a U.S. Senator from Alabama. Once on the court, he played a leading role in establishing freedom of speech and other guarantees the interpretation he (and others) believed were warranted by the language and intent of the framers. Late in his career, however, Black's commitment to literalism and intent led him to assume apparently conservative positions in civil liberties cases. The author analyzes Black's judicial and constitutional philosophy, as well as his approach to specific cases, through the eyes of Black's critics and through an assessment of scholarly opinion of his jurisprudence. -- from book jacket.
