{"id":41758,"date":"2015-10-09T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41758"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:19:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:19:28","slug":"loren-miller-civil-rights-attorney-and-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41758","title":{"rendered":"Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of Oklahoma Press<\/a>
\nSeptember 2015
\n304 pages
\n6.125″ x 9.25″
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780806149165<\/p>\n

Amina Hassan<\/a><\/strong>, Consultant & Researcher
\nThe Azara Group, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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Loren Miller<\/a> was one of the nation\u2019s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the fields of housing and education. With co-counsel Thurgood Marshall<\/a>, he argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>, whose decisions effectively abolished racially restrictive housing covenants. One of these cases, Shelley v. Kraemer<\/a><\/em> (1948), is taught in nearly every American law school today. Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Born the son of a former slave and a white midwesterner in 1903, Loren Miller lived the quintessential American success story, both by rising from rural poverty to a position of power and influence and by blazing his own path. Author Amina Hassan reveals Miller as a fearless critic of the powerful and an ardent debater whose acid wit was known to burn \u201choles in the toughest skin and eat right through double-talk, hypocrisy, and posturing.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a freshly minted member of the bar who preferred political activism and writing to the law, Miller set out for Los Angeles<\/a> from Kansas<\/a> in 1929. Hassan describes his early career as a fiery radical journalist, as well as his ownership of the California Eagle<\/em><\/a>, one of the longest-running African American newspapers in the West<\/a>. In his work with the California<\/a> branch of the ACLU<\/a>, Miller sought to halt the internment of West Coast Japanese citizens<\/a>, helped integrate the U.S. military and the L.A. Fire Department<\/a>, and defended Black Muslims arrested in a deadly street battle with the LAPD<\/a>. Hassan charts Miller\u2019s ceaseless commitment to improving the lives of Americans regardless of their race or ethnicity. In 1964, Governor Edmund G. Brown<\/a> appointed Miller as a Municipal Court justice for Los Angeles County<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The story told here in full for the first time is of a true American original who defied societal limitations to reshape the racial and political landscape of twentieth-century America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist University of Oklahoma Press September 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806149165 Amina Hassan, Consultant & Researcher The Azara Group, New York, New York Loren Miller was one of the nation\u2019s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,1467,8,17,20],"tags":[20435,455,20434,787,1770],"class_list":["post-41758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-amina-hassan","tag-california","tag-loren-miller","tag-los-angeles","tag-university-of-oklahoma-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41879,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758\/revisions\/41879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}