Collected Legal Papers, Homer S. Brown's Copy, New York, 1920.
The Jurist's Dialogue: Judge Homer S. Brown's Annotated Copy of Holmes' Collected Legal Papers Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1921]. vii, 316 pp. Later printing (copyright date: 1920). Original cloth, moderate shelfwear, light fading to spine, bookplate of Homer S. Brown to front pastedown, his signature to front free endpaper, annotations about the book in his hand, with page references, to rear free endpaper and pastedown. A very good copy with an interesting association. $500 * This association copy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s seminal work, Collected Legal Papers, was once owned and annotated by the pioneering African American jurist and civil rights titan, Judge Homer S. Brown (1896-1977). Homer S. Brown was a "Father of Firsts" in Pennsylvania's legal and political history. His career was a masterclass in breaking racial barriers being The First African American Judge elected to the Allegheny County Court and later the Court of Common Pleas; the Founder and First President of the Pittsburgh NAACP, serving for 24 years; and the Legislative Leader known as the "Father of the State Fair Employment Practices Act," a precursor to national civil rights legislation. This volume represents an intellectual bridge between two legal eras. Holmes provided the theory-that "the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience"-and Brown applied that "experience" to dismantle systemic segregation. Brown's work at the local and state levels provided the strategic "proof of concept" for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Thurgood Marshall in the lead-up to Brown v. Board of Education.
Price: $500.00
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