Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist Volume 10

by Amina Hassan

Book Overview

Loren Miller was one of the nation's most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions effectively abolished racially restrictive housing covenants. One of these cases, Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), is taught in nearly every American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806149167
• ISBN13: 9780806149165
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"