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Loren Miller - Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist (Hardcover)
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Loren Miller - Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist (Hardcover)
Series: Race and Culture in the American West Series
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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 law school
today. Later, the two men played key roles in Brown v. Board of
Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools. Loren
Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist recovers this
remarkable figure from the margins of history and for the first
time fully reveals his life for what it was: an extraordinary
American story and a critical chapter in the annals of racial
justice. Born to a former slave and a white midwesterner in 1903,
Loren Miller lived the quintessential American success story,
blazing his own path to rise from rural poverty to a position of
power and influence. Author Amina Hassan reveals Miller as a
fearless critic of those in power and an ardent debater whose acid
wit was known to burn ""holes in the toughest skin and eat right
through double-talk, hypocrisy, and posturing."" As a freshly
minted member of the bar who preferred political activism and
writing to the law, Miller set out for Los Angeles from Kansas in
1929. Hassan describes his early career as a fiery radical
journalist, as well as his ownership of the California Eagle, one
of the longest-running African American newspapers in the West. In
his work with the California branch of the ACLU, Miller sought to
halt the internment of West Coast Japanese American citizens,
helped integrate the U.S. military and the Los Angeles Fire
Department, and defended Black Muslims arrested in a deadly street
battle with the LAPD. In 1964, Governor Edmund G. Brown appointed
Miller as a Municipal Court justice for Los Angeles County,
honoring his ceaseless commitment to improving the lives of
Americans regardless of their race or ethnicity. ""Either we shall
have to make democracy work for every American,"" Miller declared,
or ""we shall not be able to preserve it for any American."" The
story told here is of an American original who defied societal
limitations to reshape the racial and political landscape of
twentieth-century America.
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