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Title Answering the call : a memoir of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America / Judge Nathaniel R. Jones ; foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
Publisher New York : The New Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Description xvii, 414 pages ; 24 cm


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 EI-Adult Collection  347.73 JON Nearby on shelf  30626003166390 12-01-17  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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. 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.
Subject Jones, Nathaniel R., 1926-2020
Judges -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781620970751
1620970759
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