Earl B. Dickerson.Earl B. Dickerson Robert J. Blakely & Marcus Shepard Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press is the university press of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 1893, at first specializing in law. It is especially notable for its literature in translation publishing, especially by European writers. 629 Noyes Street, Evanston, IL 60208-4170 0810123355 $24.95 www.nupress.northwestern.edu Prominent journalist Robert J. Blakely and freelance writer Marcus Shepard present Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality, the first ever biography of Earl B. Dickerson (1891-1986), an independent-minded African-American who spent his life struggling against racial injustice. The racial oppression in his native Mississippi forced him to flee flee v. fled , flee·ing, flees v.intr. 1. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night. 2. to Chicago at age fifteen; yet Chicago was no utopia. Dickerson worked his way through preparatory schools preparatory school: see school. preparatory school School that prepares students for entrance to a higher school. In Europe, where secondary education has been selective, preparatory schools have been those that catered to pupils wishing to enter and college, a segregated officers' training school, and law school at the University of Chicago. His distinguished career included membership in FDR's first Fair Employment Practices Committee; leadership in the movement that broke the color barrier to membership in the Illinois State Bar Association; and his driving role behind the Hansberry v. Lee Hansberry v. Lee, is a famous case now usually known in civil procedure for teaching that res judicata U.S. Supreme Court case that brought about the beginning of the end of restrictive real estate covenants, used as a legal tool of segregation segregation: see apartheid; integration. in the North. A thoroughly researched, engagingly told life story that brings to life the man behind the pitched legal battles for social progress. |
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