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Language
English
Description
Adisa Johnson, a young African American attorney, is living her dream of practicing law with a prestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police officer shot an unarmed black teen who is now lying comatose in the hospital. Adisa is itching to jump into the fight as a special prosecutor, but feels pulled...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Publishing Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Reverend Thomas has identified twenty-five Black attorneys practicing in Knoxville from 1872-1956. Several had distinguished careers not only as attorneys buy also as political leaders in their respective Knoxville communities. Others practice in Knoxville for short periods of time before moving on to opportunities elsewhere.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his death in an accident, the heart of a slick urban lawyer is transplanted into the body of his nemesis, an overweight, bigoted policeman who suffered a heart attack.
8) View park
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
9) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and one of the landmark cases of his life. It follows the young lawyer to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of his white socialite employer. Muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall partners with a courageous young Jewish lawyer, and together they mount the defense in an environment of racism and anti-Semitism....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate--and the bad memories it holds--years ago, but their dying grandfather's request brings them home: to a failing business, a legacy of secrets and a deathbed promise to make things right.
12) Lawless
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • “A masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities—soon to be a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane
“Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People
The...
“Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People
The...
15) Abide with me
Author
Series
Invisible life trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 350 pages ; 20-25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897. Despite her mother's misgivings, willful Zona Heaster marries Erasmus Trout Shue, the blacksmith. Weeks later Mary Jane Heaster receives word that Zona died from a fall, attributed to a recent illness. Determined to get justice for her daughter, she informs the county prosecutor that Zona's ghost appeared to her, saying that she had been murdered; an autopsy confirms her claim. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Consigned...
Author
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
x, 221 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he "devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people." There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas School of Law and took him to the highest levels of business and government."--BOOK JACKET.
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