America 1970-1979: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1970-1979.

America 1970-1979: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1970-1979.
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Barbara N. Armstrong, 85, first woman law professor in the United States, 18 January 1976.

Alexander M. Bickel, constitutional-law scholar at Yale University, 7 November 1974.

Hugo L. Black, 85, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1937-1971), 25 September 1971.

Leo Brewster, 76, United States District Court judge who supervised and decided the school-desegregation case in Fort Worth, Texas, 27 November 1976.

James F. Byrnes, 93, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1941-1942), 8 April 1972.

Tom C. Clark, 78, associate justice on the Supreme Court (1949-1967), 13 June 1977.

Ben C. Connally, 65, federal district court judge who presided over Houston's school-desegregation case, 2 December 1975.

Clifford J. Durr, 76, lawyer in the New Deal and in the Truman administration until he objected to loyalty oaths; active in civil rights in Montgomery, Alabama, 12 May 1975.

Morris L. Ernst, 87, lawyer who successfully defended James Joyce's Ulysses against charges of obscenity, 22 May 1976.

Lon L. Fuller, 75, leading legal scholar of contracts and jurisprudence, 8 April 1978.

Carlo Gambino, 74, organized-crime leader, 15 October 1976.

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