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Personal
Data
- DOB
7/27/37
- Married
with four children
- Admitted
to Texas State Bar 1980
- Veteran
U.S. Army 1956-1958; Honorable Discharge
Education
- J.D.
1980, South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas
- Ph.D.
1973, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- M.A.
1963, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- B.A.
1961, Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa
Academic
Honors
- Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1961-1962
- Southern
Fellowships Fund Fellowship
- Ford
Foundation Fellowship in Ethnic
Studies, Vanderbilt University, 1971-1972
- John
Hay Whitney Foundation Research Grant, 1974-1975
- Phi
Kappa Phi, Parsons College
Memberships
- State
Bar of Texas - TBC #07963300
- Tennessee
Historical Society
Courts
Licensed and Admitted to Practice Before
- United
States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western
Districts of Texas
- United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United
States Supreme Court
- All
Texas Courts
Legal
Cases of Note
- Roscello
v. Southwest Airlines Co., 726 F.2d 217 (5th Cir. 1984),
established the right to a jury trial under the Railway
Labor Act in failure to represent case.
- Hamilton
v. Rodgers II, 791 F.2d 439 (5th Cir. 1986), established
application of the law of agency to first level supervisors
under Title VII.
- Durham
v. Red Lake Fishing & Hunting Club, 666 F.Supp.
954 (W.D. Tex 1987) [case involving alleged private clubs],
established that organization was not a private club;first
private club case reported in West Reporter in approximately
ten years.
- Hamilton
v. Rodgers I, 573 F.Supp. 452 (S.D. Tex 1983), established
for first time under Texas law the right of survival of
civil rights cause of action after death of plaintiff.
- Peterson
v. Wilson, 141 F.3d 573 (5th Cir. 1998), reaffirmed
the proposition that a trial judge cannot invade the internal
deliberation process of the jury.
Special
Note:
A
book co-authored by Patrick J. Gilpin.
Read a Review of the book.
Historical
Publications
Journal
Articles
- "A
Challenge to White Southern Universities: An Argument
for Including Negro History in the Curriculum",
Journal of Negro Education, XXXVIII, No. 4 (Fall, 1969)
443-466, First Author.
- "Charles
S. Johnson: Scholar and Educator", Negro History
Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 3 (March, 1976)
- "Charles
S. Johnson and the Second Red Scare: An Episode",
Tennessee Historical Quarterly, XXXVII, No. 1 (Spring,
1978), 76-88.
- "Charles
S. Johnson and the Southern Educational Reporting Service",
The Journal of Negro History, LXIII, No. 3 (July, 1978),
197-208.
- Charles
S. Johnson and the Race Relations Institutes at Fisk
University", Phylon, XLI, No. 3 (September, 1980),
300-311.
Historical
Papers & Public Lectures
- "Intellectual
Genocide Against the Black Man: An American Tradition",
Seminar, University of Illinois College of Education; March
16, 1970.
- "The
Librarian and the History of Black People: Guidelines for
Preserving Non-Book Materials", Institute on the Selection,
Organization, and Use of Materials By and About the Negro,
Fisk University; June 16, 1970
- "The
Nature of Black Studies", Social Science 200; Vanderbilt
University; February 4, 1971.
- "Charles
S. Johnson: Promoting the Harlem Renaissance", Middle
Tennessee Afro-American Historical Association; Vanderbilt
University; February 28, 1972.
- "Charles
S. Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance", Texas Southern
University; February, 1973.
- "Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.: The Civil Rights Movement In Retrospect";
Lecture, Northwood Unitarian Church, Northwood, Texas, January,
1990.
- "Legal
Segregation: From Plessy to Brown:, Lecture to Black Student
Union, Trinity University, February 13, 2001.
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I
Have a Dream
"I
have a dream that my four little children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of
their skin, but by the content of their character."
--
Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963
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