Ushering Civil Rights Into Law
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Pat Arneson is professor emerita of communication and rhetorical studies at Duquesne University. She is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of several books, among them Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other and Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made. Three of her books have won awards from divisions of the National Communication Association, and she is also the recipient of the NCA's Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression.
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Introduction: A Southern Judge at the Forefront of Legal and Social Change
Chapter 1. Making the Man: Deep-Rooted Relationships and Political Initiations
Chapter 2. A Foray into Racial Desegregation: A Judicial Interpretation of Public Law in Transportation
Chapter 3. Fighting for Commensurate Access: Allegations of Court-Packing to Desegregate Primary and Secondary Public Education
Chapter 4. Demanding that the Executive Branch of Government Intervene: The Desegregation of Public Higher Education
Chapter 5. Adjudicating Representation in State Legislatures: Making Strides in Reapportionment
Chapter 6. Addressing State-Sanctioned White Supremacy in Elections: Refuting Discrimination against Black Voters
Chapter 7. Ordering Conditions that Allow for an Impartial Jury: Desegregating Juror Selection Processes
Chapter 8. Judge Richard T. Rives: A Civil Rights Legacy
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