Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom (Collective Biographies)

Weatherford, Carole Boston

ISBN 10: 0766018377 ISBN 13: 9780766018372

Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Lawson Hooks, L. Douglas Wilder, Barbara Jordan, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.

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Gr. 7-12. This volume in the Collective Biography Series offers solid introductions to the lives and legacies of some of the most prominent African American lawyers. An introduction gives a short history of African Americans in the legal profession, including Macon Allen, America's first black lawyer. Each subsequent chapter focuses on the life and work of such renowned attorneys as Thurgood Marshall, Marian Wright Edelman, Carol Moseley-Braun, and Charles Hamilton Houston, who, as vice dean of Howard University's law school, wanted to "train an army of African-American lawyers to battle for racial equality." Each short profile includes basic information about the individual's family and education, but Weatherford concentrates mostly on the lawyers' groundbreaking work, often including plenty of quotes (there's a passage from Barbara Jordan's impassioned statement at the Watergate Hearings, for example). Serviceable black-and-white photos, scattered through the text, and extensive notes and resources round out this fine title on a subject rarely covered for this age group. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0766018377
• ISBN 13: 9780766018372
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 112