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Elbert Parr Tuttle : chief jurist of the Civil Rights revolution / Anne Emanuel.

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"This is the first--and the only authorized--biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United State...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Emanuel, Anne (Anne S.), 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2011.
Series:Studies in the legal history of the South.
Subjects:
Tuttle, Elbert P. > (Elbert Parr), > 1897-1996.
Judges > Georgia > Biography.
Judges.
Georgia.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The legal lynching of John Downer
  • The great migration
  • Life was a breeze
  • College years
  • Sara Sutherland
  • Founding a law firm and raising a family
  • Gearing up for war
  • The war years
  • Building a republican party in Georgia
  • The 1952 Republican national convention
  • The Washington years
  • The great writ
  • Forming the historic Fifth circuit : nine men
  • Justice is never simple : Brown I and II
  • From Plessy to Brown to buses
  • The desegregation of the University of Georgia
  • The costs of conscience
  • Oxford, Mississippi : the battleground
  • The fight for the right to vote
  • But for Birmingham
  • The Houston conference
  • Moving on
  • The city almost too busy to hate
  • Family and friends
  • A jurisprudence of justice
  • Hail to the chief
  • and farewell
  • Appendix 1. Law clerks to Judge Tuttle
  • Appendix 2. Military honors
  • Appendix 3. Awards and honors.

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