Earl B. Dickerson

Earl B. Dickerson
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780810123359
ISBN-13 : 0810123355
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Book Synopsis Earl B. Dickerson by : Robert J. Blakely

Download or read book Earl B. Dickerson written by Robert J. Blakely and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert J. Blakely tells how Dickerson worked his way through preparatory schools and college, a segregated officers' training school, and law school at the University of Chicago. The story follows Dickerson's career as general counsel to the first insurance company owned and operated by African Americans; the first African American Democratic alderman elected to the Chicago City Council; a member of FDR's first Fair Employment Practices Committee; leader of the movement that broke the color barrier to membership in the Illinois State Bar Association; and, perhaps most famously, the power behind Hansberry v. Lee, the U.S.


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