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Download full textRussell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2014
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2014 proceedings: (1) Legal Profession in the Technological Era with Special Reference to Women Lawyers in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Lawyers, Females
Hawkins, B. Denise – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
After shepherding more than a dozen Black Mississippi plaintiffs in the landmark Ayers v. Fordice case for nearly 30 years, Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. says he never would have agreed to a $503 million settlement agreement as restitution for the state's three historically Black universities or a portion of the $2.5 million the court allocated for…
Descriptors: Lawyers, African American History, Court Litigation, Black Colleges
Hawkins, B. Denise – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2003
Profiles attorney Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr., and his fight in "Ayers v. Fordice" to desegregate Mississippi's higher education system. (EV)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Equal Education
Peer reviewedStewart, Joseph, Jr.; Heck, Edward V. – Social Science Quarterly, 1983
An analysis of the routine activities of interest group lawyers involved in the Mississippi civil rights movement revealed that (1) while the lawyers preferred the federal courts as an arena for litigation, most work was done in state and local tribunals and (2) they served as a legal aid society. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Lawyers
Direct linkBlair, Meg – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
Bella Stavisky was born in New York City on July 24, 1920. She was born to activism: her father's butcher shop was called the Live and Let Live Meat Market, in protest of WWI. Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and when her father died there was no son to say Kaddish for him, so 13-year-old Bella marched into Temple each day for a year to…
Descriptors: Jews, Civil Rights, Lawyers, Court Litigation
