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Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution
Contributor(s): Suitts, Steve (Author)

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ISBN: 1603064478     ISBN-13: 9781603064477
Publisher: NewSouth Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges
- Political Science | American Government - Judicial Branch
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1.45" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (2.20 lbs) 658 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
 
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Three decades after his death, the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black continue to be studied and discussed. This definitive study of Black's origins and early influences has been 25 years in the making and offers fresh insights into the justice's character, thought processes, and instincts. Black came out of hardscrabble Alabama hill country, and he never forgot his origins. He was further shaped in the early 20th-century politics of Birmingham, where he set up a law practice and began his political career, eventually rising to the U.S. Senate, from which he was selected by FDR for the high court. Black's nomination was opposed partly on the grounds that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the book's conclusions that is sure to be controversial is that in the context of Birmingham in the early 1920s, Black's joining of the KKK was a progressive act. This startling assertion is supported by an examination of the conflict that was then raging in Birmingham between the Big Mule industrialists and the blue-collar labor unions. Black of course went on to become a staunch judicial advocate of free speech and civil rights, thus making him one of the figures most vilified by the KKK and other white supremacists in the 1950s and 1960s.

Contributor Bio(s): Suitts, Steve: - Born in Winston County (which seceded from Alabama when the state seceded from the Union in the Civil War), Steve Suitts is an adjunct lecturer at the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts of Emory University, a position he has held for the last twenty years, and is chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff member of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, a post he held for five years; the executive director of the Southern Regional Council for eighteen years; and program coordinator, vice president, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation for nearly twenty years. Suitts also was the executive producer and writer of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," a thirteen-hour public radio series that received a Peabody Award for its history of the local southern civil rights movement.
 
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