Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.'s civil rights legacy
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Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. had a distinguished career in the federal judiciary and left a lasting legacy in the civil rights arena. Higgenbotham's most famous commentary was a 1991 open letter to newly-installed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in which he discussed the accomplishments of the civil rights movement and urged Thomas to lend his support to the movement while on the bench. Higginbotham died on December 14, 1998 at the age of 70.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1999
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Accommodating linguistic difference: toward a comprehensive theory of language rights in the United States
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The author presents her theory of language rights within a political and constitutional framework, then as part of fluid civic identity which conceives of citizenship as capable of being multi-affiliational, and how this theory might work as a political reality.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 2001
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