Raymond Pace Alexander
Subtitle: a new Negro lawyer fights for civil rights in Philadelphia
By: David A. Canton.
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604734256
Subjects: Alexander, Raymond Pace, -- 1898-1974; African American lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; Civil rights -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of a new Negro lawyer, 1898-1924; title: Using the left to fight for what is right : civil rights law and radicalism, 1925-1935; title: Making a national movement local : the civil rights struggle in Philadelphia, 1936-1948; title: The Cold War, northern Scottsboro, and the politics of rights, 1949-1953; title: Participating in the civil rights movement from the bench, 1954-1964; title: A new Negro judge in black power America, 1965-1974.