A Leon Higginbotham - In the Matter of Color Race and the American Legal Process in the Colonial Period 1978 1st/3rd. Shipped with USPS Media In the Matter of Color:

Race and the American Legal Process

Book by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.

This is a 1st edition copy of In The Matter Of Race by A. Leon Higginbotham. This book is in excellent condition. The dust jacket does show some minor signs of age and storage which can be seen in the photographs, but the pages are clean and the binding is strong. Please see photos before purchasing.

More about the author :

Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. (February 25, 1928 – December 14, 1998) was an American civil rights advocate, author, and federal court judge. Higginbotham was the seventh African-American Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the first African-American United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.[1] He was later appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, for which he served as Chief Judge from 1990 to 1991.[2] In 1995, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He used the name "Leon" informally.