Author: Robert J. Blakely
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Robert J. Blakely tells how Dickerson worked his way through preparatory schools and college, a segregated officers' training school, and law school at the University of Chicago. The story follows Dickerson's career as general counsel to the first insurance company owned and operated by African Americans; the first African American Democratic alderman elected to the Chicago City Council; a member of FDR's first Fair Employment Practices Committee; leader of the movement that broke the color barrier to membership in the Illinois State Bar Association; and, perhaps most famously, the power behind Hansberry v. Lee, the U.S.
Earl B. Dickerson
Author: Robert J. Blakely
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Robert J. Blakely tells how Dickerson worked his way through preparatory schools and college, a segregated officers' training school, and law school at the University of Chicago. The story follows Dickerson's career as general counsel to the first insurance company owned and operated by African Americans; the first African American Democratic alderman elected to the Chicago City Council; a member of FDR's first Fair Employment Practices Committee; leader of the movement that broke the color barrier to membership in the Illinois State Bar Association; and, perhaps most famously, the power behind Hansberry v. Lee, the U.S.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Robert J. Blakely tells how Dickerson worked his way through preparatory schools and college, a segregated officers' training school, and law school at the University of Chicago. The story follows Dickerson's career as general counsel to the first insurance company owned and operated by African Americans; the first African American Democratic alderman elected to the Chicago City Council; a member of FDR's first Fair Employment Practices Committee; leader of the movement that broke the color barrier to membership in the Illinois State Bar Association; and, perhaps most famously, the power behind Hansberry v. Lee, the U.S.
Guide to the Earl B. Dickerson Papers
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Category : African American businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : African American businesspeople
Languages : en
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Earl B. Dickerson Interview
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Category : African American lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Recalls early childhood experiences that stimulated his interest in civil rights. Discusses landmarks in his career including his work with the NAACP in Chicago, Ill., against restrictive covenants; chief counsel for plaintiff in Hansberry v. Lee; integrating Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations; preparing draft for petition, "We Charge Genocide", to be placed before the United Nations by DuBois (probably W.E.B. DuBois). No tape available. Interviewer: Robert Wright.
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Category : African American lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Recalls early childhood experiences that stimulated his interest in civil rights. Discusses landmarks in his career including his work with the NAACP in Chicago, Ill., against restrictive covenants; chief counsel for plaintiff in Hansberry v. Lee; integrating Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations; preparing draft for petition, "We Charge Genocide", to be placed before the United Nations by DuBois (probably W.E.B. DuBois). No tape available. Interviewer: Robert Wright.
Ebony
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Biko
Author: Donald Woods
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142993638X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142993638X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.
Jet
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
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)
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
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)
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 1768
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Languages : en
Pages : 1768
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Civil Rights--public Accommodations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Bridges of Memory
Author: Timuel D. Black
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Table of contents
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Table of contents