People's Lawyers
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People's Lawyers

Crusaders for Justice in American History

  1. 534 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

People's Lawyers

Crusaders for Justice in American History

About this book

Throughout America's history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice. In short biographical chapters, the authors tell the stories of ten of these lawyers. Some are well known: Thurgood Marshall; William Kunstler; Louis Brandeis; Morris Dees; Clarence Darrow; and Ralph Nader. Others are not so well known, but deserve to be. All are fascinating and influential attorneys, and examination of their lives illuminates key issues in American history. An annotated bibliography; a chronology of the person's life and work; and a helpful table detailing their most prominent cases accompany each chapter.

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Yes, you can access People's Lawyers by Diana Klebanon,Franklin L Jonas,Diana Klebanow in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politique et relations internationales & Droits civiques en politique. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Index

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  • Aaron v. Cooper, 267
  • Abolition movement, 12, 111
  • Abortion rights, 378
  • Accident Research (Haddon et al.), 423
  • Acheson, Dean, 265
  • Adarand Construction v. Pena, 383
  • Addams, Jane, 117
  • Ades, Bernard, 220, 226
  • Adler, Felix, 62
  • Affirmative action, 383
  • Agostini v. Fulton, 382
  • Alabama State Teachers’ Association v. Alabama Public School and College Authority, 488
  • Alexander, Raymond Pace, 212
  • Altgeld, John Peter, 115, 122
  • American Bar Association (ABA), 82, 215, 217, 378, 435
  • American Citizenship Committee, 60
  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 128–129, 212, 314–317, 362–365, 368–369, 387, 475
  • American Federation of Labor (AFL), 122, 125
  • American Free Trade League, 60
  • American Indian Movement (AIM), 307, 323
  • American Motors, 421
  • American Railway Union (ARU), 116
  • Amos, Benjamin, 226
  • Anastasia, Albert, 165
  • Anthony, Susan B., 10–13, 24, 27, 30
  • Antitrust laws, 76, 79, 81
  • Arbitration, 31
  • Armstrong, Scott, 253
  • Arnell, Samuel M., 13
  • Athanson, George, 419
  • Attica prison riots (1971), 322–323
  • Auletta, Ken, 416
  • Auto safety, 420–423
  • Auto Safety Law, 425–427...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Belva A. Lockwood
  9. Louis D. Brandeis
  10. Clarence Darrow
  11. Samuel S. Leibowitz
  12. Charles Hamilton Houston
  13. Thurgood Marshall
  14. William M. Kunstler
  15. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  16. Ralph Nader
  17. Morris Dees
  18. Index
  19. About the Authors