Day: May 1, 2013

  • William F. Yardley The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (Version 2.0) 2009-12-25 Lewis L. Laska Tennessee State University William F. Yardley, an influential and powerful advocate for the legal rights of blacks, was the first African American to run for governor of Tennessee. Yardley was born in 1844, the child of a white mother…

  • Assuming Responsibility for Who You Are: The Right To Choose “Immutable” Identity Characteristics New York University Law Review Volume 88, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 373-400 Anthony R. Enriquez New York University School of Law Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, a district court case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act,…

  • Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91 The New York Times 2013-04-27 William Yardley Associated Press Leo Branton Jr. with Angela Davis during her 1972 trial on murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges. She was acquitted. Leo Branton Jr., a California lawyer whose moving closing argument in a racially and politically charged murder trial in…

  • Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray Harvard Magazine May-June 2013 Craig Lambert Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues. In The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick relates a story from Obama’s first year at Harvard Law School, when he registered for “Race, Racism, and American Law,” a…

  • We Are Not Going To Go Away “Colonial Williamsburg” Journal Spring 2013 Andrew G. Gardner Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians Greeted the Jamestown Settlers, but They Are Still Waiting for National Recognition Beyond Virginia’s borders, the Pamunkey Indians are remembered, when they are remembered at all, mostly for a princess named Pocahontas. England’s Queen Elizabeth II probably…