Download or read book Lanterns On The Levee written by William Alexander Percy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life—although his life was exciting and varied—but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percy—Will's nephew and adopted son—recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known."

Download or read book Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States in 1789 90 91 written by William Maclay and published by Harrisburg, L. S. Hart, printer [c1880]. This book was released on 1880 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book You Are Not American written by Amanda Frost and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk—even for those born on US soil. Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all considered “un-American”—whether due to their race, ethnicity, marriage partner, or beliefs. Drawing on the narratives of those who have struggled to be treated as full members of “We the People,” law professor Amanda Frost exposes a hidden history of discrimination and xenophobia that continues to this day. The Supreme Court’s rejection of Black citizenship in Dred Scott was among the first and most notorious examples of citizenship stripping, but the phenomenon did not end there. Women who married noncitizens, persecuted racial groups, labor leaders, and political activists were all denied their citizenship, and sometimes deported, by a government that wanted to redefine the meaning of “American.” Today, US citizens living near the southern border are regularly denied passports, thousands are detained and deported by mistake, and the Trump administration is investigating the citizenship of 700,000 naturalized citizens. Even elected leaders such as Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are not immune from false claims that they are not citizens eligible to hold office. You Are Not American grapples with what it means to be American and the issues surrounding membership, identity, belonging, and exclusion that still occupy and divide the nation in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Equal Justice Under Law written by Constance Baker Motley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A civil rights lawyer who became the first African American female federal judge, describes her career, including working with Thurgood Marshall's NAACP legal team.

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Download or read book Becoming Justice Blackmun written by Linda Greenhouse and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating book. In clear and forceful prose, Becoming Justice Blackmun tells a judicial Horatio Alger story and a tale of a remarkable transformation . . . A page-turner."—The New York Times Book Review In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America's most private branch of government, the Supreme Court. Greenhouse was the first print reporter to have access to the extensive archives of Justice Harry A. Blackmun (1908–99), the man behind numerous landmark Supreme Court decisions, including Roe v. Wade. Through the lens of Blackmun's private and public papers, Greenhouse crafts a compelling portrait of a man who, from 1970 to 1994, ruled on such controversial issues as abortion, the death penalty, and sex discrimination yet never lost sight of the human beings behind the legal cases. Greenhouse also paints the arc of Blackmun's lifelong friendship with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, revealing how political differences became personal, even for two of the country's most respected jurists. From America's preeminent Supreme Court reporter, this is a must-read for everyone who cares about the Court and its impact on our lives.

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Download or read book U S Court Directory written by Ann M. Langley and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete directory to all Federal courts, including: U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals, U.S. Sentencing Commission, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, & all U.S. District Courts (arranged in alpha order by State). Complete with names, addresses & telephone numbers. Also includes the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Federal Judicial Center, & a complete index to all judges listed in the Directory.

Download or read book Creation of Certain U S Judgeships written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (84) S. 1256, (84) S. 144, (84) S. 149, (84) S. 208, (84) S. 257, (84) S. 864, (84) S. 927, (84) S. 1045, (84) S. 1164, (84) S. 1470, (84) S. 1512, (84) S. 1634, (84) S. 2070, (84) S. 2173.

Download or read book Won Over written by William Alsup and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like growing up white in Mississippi as the Civil Rights Movement exploded in the 1950s and '60s. How did white children reconciled the decency and fairness taught by their parents with the indecency and unfairness of the Mississippi Way of Life, the euphemism applied to the pervasive Jim Crow. How did the Civil Rights Movement influence white kids coming of age in the most segregated place in America? Won Over, a memoir, examines these questions as it traces the journey of United States District Judge William Alsup, born white in 1945 to hard-working parents in Mississippi. They believed in segregation. But they also taught their children fairness and decency and therein lay the conflict, a struggle at the core of the human predicament in the South. As Won Over recalls near its outset, the author's earliest doubt about the system came at age twelve when what he'd thought stood as an abandoned shack at the bottom of a sand quarry turned out to be a school for black kids, whom we saw playing in the mud outside its door. At the end, Won Over reflects on a 1966 challenge by the author and his college roommate to the Mississippi Speaker Ban, an official rule against any "controversial" speaker coming onto a college campus in Mississippi, a rule used to quash their invitation to the state president of the NAACP to speak at their college, Mississippi State University. After a tense showdown, the roommates won that challenge. In January 1967, Aaron Henry became the first black ever to speak on a white college campus in Mississippi, receiving a standing ovation. The memoir traces the influences that drew the author from traditional Southern attitudes toward a color-blind ideal. Those influences included his older sister, Willanna, his closest circle of friends, a charismatic mentor in college, and the moral force of the Civil Rights Movement. Won Over recounts their steps along that journey — a counter protest to a John Birch Society billboard calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren; meeting personally with the brother of slain leader Medgar Evers to convey condolences; a letter to the editor of the statewide paper on behalf of his circle of friends declaring "We are for civil rights for Negroes"; joining his college roommate in a rally at Tougaloo College to support the Meredith March Against Racism; and going to the Liberty Baptist Church in Chicago to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. exhort the faithful in their summer-long protest against housing and employment discrimination. In 1967, William Alsup went on to Harvard Law School, then to clerk for Justice William O. Douglas. He briefly practiced civil rights law in Mississippi before moving to San Francisco, where he became a trial attorney and, in 1999, received an appointment as United States District Judge.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1784 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 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal Courts and Judges written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 19. Considers H.R. 6159, 32 related bills, and related H.J. Res. 160 and H.J. Res. 165, to appoint additional judges throughout the nation.