Download or read book The Color of Law written by Dave Riddle and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creation of Certain United States Judgeships written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Additional Circuit and District Judges written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (85) S. 62, (85) S. 116, (85) S. 264, (85) S. 275, (85) S. 324, (85) S. 430, (85) S. 437, (85) S. 472, (85) S. 473, (85) S. 548, (85) S. 558, (85) S. 604, (85) S. 635, (85) S. 697, (85) S. 1060, (85) S. 1224, (85) S. 1419, (85) S. 420.

Download or read book Additional Circuit and District Judges written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts written by United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fighting in Paradise written by Gerald Horne and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers—Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin—were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers’ frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these allegations, Hawaii’s bid for statehood was being challenged by powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii’s representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro–civil rights legislation. Hawaii’s extensive social welfare system and the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 2664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Invitation to the Chief Justice of the United States to Address Teh Congress written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book McCarthy s Americans written by M. J. Heale and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the communist witch-hunt unleashed by Senator Joe McCarthy an aberration, or has red scare politics been an intrinsic part of American political life since the 1930s? Was McCarthyism a populist or an elitist phenomenon? Was Senator McCarthy virtually irrelevant to the phenomenon? McCarthy's Americans shows that some of the contending interpretations of McCarthyism are mutually compatible and reveals the importance of pressures usually overlooked. M. J. Heale's deeply probing study of McCarthy's "hinterland" in the American states demonstrates that what is usually called McCarthyism was part of a political cycle that emerged in the 1930s and took two decades to run its course. Heale also argues that much of the red scare dynamic came from the big cities and the white South. It was here that a range of interests exhibiting a fundamentalist fury with the changing times that the political order had fashioned during the New Deal years rested on fragile foundations. Defying the "consensus liberalism" of the 1950s, McCarthy and, more important, the many little McCarthys in the states kept alive a brand of right-wing politics, preparing the way for George Wallace in the 1960s and the revitalized conservatism of Richard Nixon in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

Download or read book Herbert Brownell Jr Attorney General of the United States Petitioner V Civil Rights Congress Respondent Posey T Kime et Al for Petitioner Ralph E Powe and Rhoda Laks for Respondent written by United States. Subversive Activities Control Board and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Citizens of Asian America written by Cindy I-Fen Cheng and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights of all and was superior to communist countries became a national imperative. In Citizens of Asian America, Cindy I-Fen Cheng explores how Asian Americans figured in this effort to shape the credibility of American democracy, even while the perceived “foreignness” of Asian Americans cast them as likely alien subversives whose activities needed monitoring following the communist revolution in China and the outbreak of the Korean War. While histories of international politics and U.S. race relations during the Cold War have largely overlooked the significance of Asian Americans, Cheng challenges the black-white focus of the existing historiography. She highlights how Asian Americans made use of the government’s desire to be leader of the “free world” by advocating for civil rights reforms, such as housing integration, increased professional opportunities, and freedom from political persecution. Further, Cheng examines the liberalization of immigration policies, which worked not only to increase the civil rights of Asian Americans but also to improve the nation’s ties with Asian countries, providing an opportunity for the U.S. government to broadcast, on a global scale, the freedom and opportunity that American society could offer. Cindy I-Fen Cheng is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In the Nation of Newcomers series

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: