Under Color Of Law

Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781631492860

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Pdf

New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

Author : A. Dwight Pettit
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462056408

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Under Color of Law by A. Dwight Pettit Pdf

Building on the backdrop of his involvement in three important civil-rights cases, author A. Dwight Pettit narrates his personal story from the 1940s to the present in Under Color of Law. A successful civil-rights, constitutional, and criminal lawyer, Pettit focuses on the meaning of these cases for himself, his family, and the nation. As a direct legal descendent and beneficiary of Brown v. Board of Education, Pettit shares its relevance to his education and to his career as a civil-rights lawyer. His memoir details a host of milestones, including an early childhood in the black community and a sudden transition into a tense, all-white world at Aberdeen High School where he was admitted by order of the U.S. District Court. He recalls his time at Howard University as well as the major litigation and representation in which he was involved as a lawyer, focusing in particular on his father's case which involved the treatment, torment and retaliation his father experienced at his job for bringing his son's desegregation lawsuit to trial. Attorney Pettit's memoir also traces his involvement in politics, especially his intimate role in the Jimmy Carter 1976 presidential campaign and the Carter administration. Providing insight into past and current civil-rights issues, Under Color of Law underscores the Pettit family's pursuit of justice in the context of the drive for equal rights for all. "One of the most emotional, fascinating books I have read. ... From start to finish, this book will have you question law as we know it and ask, in terms of racism and prejudice in America, 'Has anything really changed?'" -"Zinah" Mary Brown, CEO, Elocution Productions

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015033909279

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United States Code by United States Pdf

Author : Aaron Philip Clark
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1542030188

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Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark Pdf

The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect in this relevant, razor-sharp novel of suspense. Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and fix a broken department. A fast-track promotion to detective in the coveted Robbery-Homicide Division puts him closer to achieving his goal. Four years later, calls for police accountability rule the headlines. The city is teeming with protests for racial justice. When the body of a murdered black academy recruit is found in the Angeles National Forest, Finn is tasked to investigate. As pressure mounts to solve the crime and avoid a PR nightmare, Finn scours the underbelly of a volatile city where power, violence, and race intersect. But it's Finn's past experience as a beat cop that may hold the key to solving the recruit's murder. The price? The end of Finn's career...or his life.

Author : Michael McGarrity
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101212196

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Under the Color of Law by Michael McGarrity Pdf

Newly-installed Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives a deadly welcome when a U.S. ambassador's ex-wife is brutally stabbed to death in her home. But before Kerney can begin to investigate, the FBI closes the case with trumped-up evidence. And the harder Kerney hunts for the truth, the more he knows that he may not survive the chase.

Author : Gail Williams O'Brien
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807882306

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The Color of the Law by Gail Williams O'Brien Pdf

On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them. By day's end, more than one hundred African Americans had been jailed. Two days later, highway patrolmen killed two of the arrestees while they were awaiting release from jail. Drawing on oral interviews and a rich array of written sources, Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot," the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. In the process, she illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the United States. O'Brien argues that the Columbia events are emblematic of a nationwide shift during the 1940s from mob violence against African Americans to increased confrontations between blacks and the police and courts. As such, they reveal the history behind such contemporary conflicts as the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases.

Author : Steve Babson,David Elsila,Dave Riddle
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814336380

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The Color of Law by Steve Babson,David Elsila,Dave Riddle Pdf

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.

Author : Mark Gimenez
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307278159

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The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez Pdf

In this riveting, unputdownable legal thriller, a partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing. Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall, wayward son of a Texas politician, gets himself murdered after a night of booze, drugs, and rough sex, Scott is assigned to defend the prime suspect, a heroine-addicted hooker named Shawanda Jones. The powers that be want her convicted—and Scott’s future at the firm may depend on it. But unfortunately for Scott, Shwanada claims she’s innocent, and he believes her.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112104838778

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Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kitty Calavita
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226296616

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Invitation to Law & Society by Kitty Calavita Pdf

Research and real-life examples that “lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call ‘the law’” (Law and Politics Book Review). Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into conversations that introduce the field’s dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive exposé of law’s public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to both law as it is written and actual legal practices, as well as the law’s potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart. With this second edition of Invitation to Law and Society, Calavita brings up to date what is arguably the leading introduction to this exciting, evolving field of inquiry and adds a new chapter on the growing law and cultural studies movement. “Entertaining and conversational.” —Law and Social Inquiry

Author : A. Dwight Pettit
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491777015

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Under Color of Law by A. Dwight Pettit Pdf

Building on the backdrop of his involvement in three important civil-rights cases, author A. Dwight Pettit narrates his personal story from the 1940s to the present in Under Color of Law. A successful civil-rights, constitutional, and criminal lawyer, Pettit focuses on the meaning of these cases for himself, his family, and the nation. As a direct legal descendent and beneficiary of Brown v. Board of Education, Pettit shares its relevance to his education and to his career as a civil-rights lawyer. His memoir details a host of milestones, including an early childhood in the black community and a sudden transition into a tense, all-white world at Aberdeen High School where he was admitted by order of the U.S. District Court. He recalls his time at Howard University as well as the major litigation and representation in which he was involved as a lawyer, focusing in particular on his father’s case which involved the treatment, torment and retaliation his father experienced at his job for bringing his son’s desegregation lawsuit to trial. Attorney Pettit’s memoir also traces his involvement in politics, especially his intimate role in the Jimmy Carter 1976 presidential campaign and the Carter administration. Providing insight into past and current civil-rights issues, Under Color of Law underscores the Pettit family’s pursuit of justice in the context of the drive for equal rights for all. “One of the most emotional, fascinating books I have read. ... From start to finish, this book will have you question law as we know it and ask, in terms of racism and prejudice in America, ‘Has anything really changed?’” —“Zinah” Mary Brown, CEO, Elocution Productions

Author : Tiwanda ''Ne Ne' Lovelace
Publisher : 7 West Publishing and Seven West Productions, LLC
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Skullduggery: Under Color of Law by Tiwanda ''Ne Ne' Lovelace Pdf

My name is Tiwanda Lovelace and I am the daughter of a man convicted of allegedly killing a police officer. I have been subjected to years of unaddressed deprivations. I declare and attest to the information provided within and at the following links are true and correct! The supporting documentation can be found https://mega.nz/#F!HjolFYiD!6g220woQqxtU1B6lYQMkFw. I have had no peace and in 2021, the use of technology to harass and induce harm has not changed, nor subsided. I have been harassed, subjected to illegal privacy violations and deprivation of all rights and suffered wrongful vilification, for decades without any shield! Let me be clear, we do not need more laws. We need the laws to be enforced for ALL, equally. Per the FBI file, their Involvement should have ended upon my return to GA but it continued for years, without justification. If the FBI's presence was lawful, why not communicate or assist with the enforcement of laws to uphold human and civil rights? These dates that have been sealed by court order were consistent with events and allegations of violations. Instead of preventing the numerous allegations of rape, deprivation, degradation and rights violation, they did nothing but watch! When these allegations and concerns of unlawful privacy violations led to my request for a copy of my FBI file under F.O.I.A. (Freedom of Information Act). The FBI responded by getting a Court Order to Seal...WHY? In decades of blatant disregard for human and civil rights, the only actions were to 'Under color of Law' cover up and hide their knowledge of atrocities... I have traveled domestic and abroad, seeking assistance in stopping the abuse of power. However, as an unaligned and sacrificed African American female, (facing all of the 'Isms' of this world), I have received absolutely NO SUPPORT from any groups, organizations or entities. Maybe your organizations will have better luck utilizing the supporting documentation that exposes decades of willful, corruption, deliberate deprivation of rights and blatant abuse of power! If I don't do this and require proper resolution, I will find myself still under a pressure from those racists who are in positions of power, male chauvinist who are quick to' sacrifice,' which is up to and including Officials and officers, forever." Besides that, you'll find later in this book I have plans to address power of attorney reform and add some ideas to police reform but to include conflict of interest for officers embedded in billion-dollar Industries. These officials are not trying to do the right thing and I know for a certainty how much musical copyrights and royalties should have been approximately. I know how much the online publishing should have been due to all of those third-party sellers, while each reported no sales. In addition, the fact that I believe someone in position actually went and held someone accountable for these very same violations... all while keeping me destitute. I'm trying to provide an opportunity to be able to have a public record of the atrocities that have been willfully and deliberately been allowed and supported through inaction of those in positions. Clearly, those in opposition to my freedom have been supporting culprits for decades. It is really sad that it is commonplace for such behavior.

Author : Mehrsa Baradaran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674982307

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The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran Pdf

In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black communities can never accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.

Author : Darrell L. Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317523994

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Civil Liability in Criminal Justice by Darrell L. Ross Pdf

Understanding case law in high-liability areas and performing the job within a legal framework places a criminal justice agency in the best position to defend against a lawsuit. This handbook addresses the problems confronting criminal justice practitioners and their agencies due to the ever-increasing number of civil liability lawsuits. It introduces the reader to civil liability generally and the federal law specifically, while indicating the steps that can be taken to minimize the risk of litigation. Civil Liability in Criminal Justice is one of very few texts on the subject that combines applicable case law and related liability research, a valuable feature for current and future policy makers and managers. Ross also provides an overview of current case law in high-liability areas, enhancing student knowledge and practitioner job performance.

Author : Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781631493652

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Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A “volume of lasting significance” that illuminates how the clash between sex and religion has defined our nation’s history (Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University). Lauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have legislated sexual behavior from America’s earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. This “fascinating and maddening” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) narrative shows how agitators, moralists, and, especially, the justices of the Supreme Court have navigated issues as divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity or abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters, including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, enliven this “commanding synthesis of scholarship” (Publishers Weekly) that dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding.