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14 Oct 2022, 10:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But in Texas, everything comes back to the justice system, and baseball historian Bill Staples, Jr. schooled me today on an aspect of the Texas prison system I never knew about: It used to have its own baseball league! [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 8:13 am by Ronald Collins
Lincoln & the Negroes: The Long Road to Equality  (1963) William Rehnquist, Civil Liberty and the Civil War (1997) Similarly, some of the Justices were keenly interested and wrote works on religion and related topics: David J. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It's incredibly frustrating, particularly for someone who started this work in the halcyon pre-Holmes-v-Morales era.4) Since I'd written on Grits about the Texas prison system's long-defunct prison-baseball league, I should mention finding this article recently referencing the "Satchel Paige" of the Texas prison system, Claud "Scottie" Walker, a negro-league alum who played for Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants and was still… [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 12:33 pm by Adam Gillette
Justice Marshall was one of the most liberal members of the Supreme Court, and was replaced by Justice Thomas, one of the most conservative members (although given his belief that precedent is not entitled to any deference one could say that Justice Thomas is really the most radical justice). [read post]
4 May 2010, 10:41 am by Tim Zinnecker
Baseball fans will enjoy reading this article on Monte Irvin, written by columnist Richard Justice for today's Houston Chronicle.Three pieces of trivia (from the article):1) Irvin, 91, was married for 62 years and now resides in Houston.2) Irvin, who played for the Newark Eagles, is one of only four living Negro League players to be inducted in the Hall of Fame. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
  As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in his opinion for the U.S. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 8:21 am by Margaret Wood
And we carry forward the unyielding hope that guided a movement as it bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League, whose purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 6:50 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
These men were our lawyers-Negro lawyers from the North: William Ming of Chicago and Hubert Delaney from New York. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 6:00 pm
  I should also remember the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and the disgrace of the separate Negro Leagues that lasted for over 60 years, coinciding with part of the glory days. [read post]
26 Feb 2016, 6:01 am by Robert Kreisman
Robert Kreisman of Kreisman Law Offices serves as the chair of the Administration of Justice Subcommittee of the Public Affairs Committee of the Union League Club of Chicago. [read post]
2 May 2012, 3:35 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Post Office in 2007 Several organizations had joined the appellate case as amicus curiae, including the ACLU, American Jewish Congress, Japanese American Citizens League, and the NAACP, which was represented by Thurgood Marshall. [read post]
31 May 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Within the black community, it was known as the Negro Wall Street. [read post]