https://reuther.wayne.edu/taxonomy/term/862 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2678 <p>Judge Damon Keith served in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Keith delivered several landmark rulings in civil rights and civil liberties cases and played an active role in various civic, cultural and educational associations, including the Detroit YMCA, the United Negro College Fund, and the Detroit National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is the recipient of the NAACP’s Springarn Medal, the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award, the Edward J. Devitt Award for Distinguished Service to Justice, and over thirty honorary degrees. Judge Keith’s papers document important milestones in his career, his precedent-setting judicial decisions, his role in ensuring equal justice for all Americans, and the many honors and awards bestowed upon him for his dedication to civil rights and to the City of Detroit. </p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2678#comments Affirmative action African Americans Busing for school integration--Michigan Civil rights Courts--United States Damon J. Keith Law Collection Desegregation Detroit (Mich.) Police Dept. Detroit Housing Commission Detroit--politics and government Detroit--race relations Discrimination in employment Discrimination in housing--Michigan Hamtramck (Mich.) Housing Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922- Michigan. Civil Rights Commission. Minorities--Civil rights Minorities--Housing National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Detroit Branch Police, Black Pontiac (Mich.) Urban Affairs Wayne State University Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:20:02 -0400 drice 2678 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15456 <p>Dr. Michael Stauch explains how newly elected Detroit Mayor Coleman Young introduced “community policing” to the city in 1974, an experimental approach to law and order that included affirmative action hiring policies and neighborhood police stations to address community concerns about both police brutality and criminal activity in the neighborhoods. <span class='read-more'><a href="https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15456" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span></p> African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--20th century Community development--Michigan--Detroit Detroit (Mich.) Police Dept. Detroit--economic conditions Detroit--politics and government Detroit--race relations Detroit--social conditions Minorities--Civil rights Police, Black Police-community relations Fri, 01 May 2026 15:58:24 -0400 teller 15456 at https://reuther.wayne.edu