african american lawyers

Presents a history of African Americans in law and politics, and discusses the contributions that they made.

Contains twelve speeches delivered by Vernon Jordan over the course of his career as president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Inc., director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, an attorney in private practice, and in many other roles, from 1971 to 2008.

An oral history of the American civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama from the perspective of an African-American lawyer.

A biography of African American lawyer Benjamin Hooks, who continues to speak and teach about racial justice and equality since his 1992 retirement from the position of executive director of the NAACP.

With Russia on the brink of bringing back the monarchy, Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord travels to Moscow to perform a background check on the tsarist candidate favored by a powerful group of Western businessmen, but he becomes caught up in the mystery of what really happened to the family of Russia's last tsar after gunmen make an attempt on his life.

Narrates the life of the first African-American to serve as a judge on the United States Supreme Court.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Michelle Obama, the wife of Barack Obama and the first African-American woman to become the First Lady of the United States.

The autobiography of a fair-skinned man who learned, as a child in the 1950s, that he was actually the son of an African-American man.

Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Hooks, Douglas Wilder, Barbara Jordan, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.