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Jean Eberhart Dubofsky came of age when trouble was around every corner, fueled by one grave injustice or another. Appealing For Justice is the story of how this shy, unknown, and unheralded woman found her place at the table again and again, then led the way, broke down barriers and helped shape the direction and flow of history. At almost every step, Jean Dubofsky's story mirrors, reflects, or reveals the depth of the injustice, discrimination, and inequality that lay hidden just beneath the surface of the country we thought ourselves to be. Jean Dubofsky made history in 1979 when she was the first woman appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court, then made history again in 1996 at the U.S. Supreme Court when she argued and won the landmark gay rights case, Romer v. Evans. Dubofsky's journey from helping to shape and implement the strategy that led to the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, to bringing the first slavery lawsuit since the Civil War, and finally winning at the U.S. Supreme Court is not simply her story, it also is the a story of an entire generation. Appealing For Justice allows, for the first time, Jean Dubofsky and Romer v. Evans to find their rightful historic place at a critical turning point in the country's unfolding story of equal rights and justice. It is a captivating tale of wild rides, fears and triumph, of hurdles overcome, battles won, and a time in the nation's history that breaks our hearts and renews our spirits.
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Publisher: Gilpin Park Press (September 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0997698403
ISBN-13: 978-0997698404
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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When the children of the 1960s began gathering in challenge to America’s long-functioning caste system, a lot of them came together in Colorado. That’s where I met Jean Eberhart Dubofsky. At a Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzalez Crusade for Justice political march and rally in Greeley, Colorado. We were all young, newly arrived in Colorado, legal aid lawyers. There were a lot of us. Funded, for god’s sake, by the federal government, the social caste system’s concierge! I remember that The People in Charge of Greeley were not amused.Susan Berry Casey’s biography, Appealing to Justice, takes up Jean’s story, and uses it, as Helen Thorpe writes, “ to “capture the story of an entire generation- indeed, the story of America over the past half century.”Casey describes Jean’s midwestern, middle class Topeka, Kansas childhood, completing high school with both a National Merit Scholarship, and as the nation-wide winner of the Betty Crocker Future Homemaker of America award. Off to Stanford, then to the Women’s Hell Program at Harvard Law School’s, and ultimately into legal services for the poor offices set up under President Johnson’s War on Poverty initiatives.Casey also details well Jean’s pivot from public interest law firm lawyer to a public servant law reformer. After years of fighting on behalf of poor people with government and and politically well-connected entities, Jean is invited into powerful positions within Colorado’s state government— first as a dominant figure in J.D. MacFarlane’s State Attorney General’s office, then as Gov. Dick Lamm’s first woman appointee to the Colorado Supreme Court, at age 37.Casey writes clearly about the war wounds that the first woman-to-do-whatever inevitably receives. But there was always a recovery.
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