Charles H. Houston
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary study of civil rights leadership
By: edited by James L. Conyers
Contributors: Conyers, James L.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham [Md.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739143582; 9780739143605
Subjects: Race relations; HISTORY / Social History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Civil rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; Civil rights movements; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; African Americans; History
Description: "This edited collection focuses on the philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of Charles H. Houston, a legal scholar activist who played an important role in the civil rights movement"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Charles Hamilton Houston: An Efficacious Reflexive Analysis; title: James L. Conyers, Jr.; title: Part I. Philosophical Foundations; title: Chapter 2: In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not Equal; title: Derek W. Black; title: Chapter 3: "A Lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite to society"; title: John Brittain; title: Chapter 4: What the Right Learned from Charles Houston That the Left Did Not; title: Lewis R. Gordon; title: Part II. Constructive Engagement; title: Chapter 5: The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and Houstonian Jurisprudence in the; title: Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement; title: Katherine Bankole Medina; title: Chapter 6: Charles Hamilton Houston and Post-New Negro Movement Authority:; title: The Socio-Literary History of a Legal Warrior; title: Christel N. Temple; title: Part III. Enduring Contributions; title: Chapter 7: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle Against Lynching in the; title: United States, 1930-1939; title: Julius E. Thompson; title: Chapter 8: African American Voices Should Speak Loudly and Proudly to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Fundamentally Unfair Discrimination; title: L. Darnell Weeden; title: Chapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case Study; title: Cary D. Wintz; title: Chapter 10: Neo-Houstonian Studies: The Nation of Islam, Edward W. Jacko, Jr. and the Struggle for Afro-Muslim Civil Liberties; title: Malachi Crawford.