Answering the call: an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
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"Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America-a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most notable setbacks in the affirmative action debates that continue into the present in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond. Judge Nathaniel R. Jones's pathbreaking career was forged in the 1960s: as the first African American assistant U.S. attorney in Ohio; as assistant general counsel of the Kerner Commission; and, beginning in 1969, as general counsel of the NAACP. In that latter role, Jones coordinated attacks against Northern school segregation-a vital, divisive, and poorly understood chapter in the movement for equality-twice arguing in the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case Bradley v. Milliken, which addressed school desegregation in Detroit. He also led the national response to the attacks against affirmative action, spearheading and arguing many of the signal legal cases of that effort. Judge Jones's story is an essential corrective to the idea of a post-racial America--his voice and his testimony offering enduring evidence of the unfinished work of ending Jim Crow's legacy."--
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20th Century
21st Century
African American Nonfiction
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biography
Biography & Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges
Civil rights
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Electronic books
History
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
Jones, Nathaniel R
Jones, Nathaniel R., -- 1926-
Jones, Nathaniel R., -- 1926-2020
Judges
Judges -- United States -- Biography
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LAW -- Civil Rights
Lawyers & Judges
Nonfiction
Sociology
United States
21st Century
African American Nonfiction
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biography
Biography & Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges
Civil rights
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Electronic books
History
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
Jones, Nathaniel R
Jones, Nathaniel R., -- 1926-
Jones, Nathaniel R., -- 1926-2020
Judges
Judges -- United States -- Biography
LAW
LAW -- Civil Rights
Lawyers & Judges
Nonfiction
Sociology
United States
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Answering the call [electronic resource] : An autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in america. Nathaniel R Jones
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