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	Hugo Black - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937 - 1971).
		Hugo LaFayette Black was born on February 27, 1886 in a small wooden farmhouse in Harlan, Alabama, a rural town in Clay County, Alabama.
		Black believed that the first eight amendments to the United States Constitution had become applicable to the individual States by the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and specifically the Privileges or Immunities Clause of Section 1 of that amendment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Black (2700 words)

	Hugo Black Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27, 1886 - September 25, 1971) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937 - 1971).
		Black was born in Harlan, Alabama, a rural town in Clay County.
		Black was noted for his consistent adherence to the theory that the text of the Constitution is absolutely determinative on any question calling for judicial interpretation.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Black_Hugo.html (553 words)

	Hugo_Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugo Black then moved back to Birmingham in 1907 to continue his legal practice, where at age 21 he was also initiated as a member of a Masonic lodge.
		Hugo Black was nominated by President Roosevelt to the Supreme Court in 1937 to replace Justice Willis Van Devanter.
		Hugo Black was noted for his consistent adherence to the theory that the text of the Constitution is absolutely determinative on any question calling for judicial interpretation.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Hugo_Black (2265 words)

	Hugo L. Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugo Lafayette Black was born in the hill country of Alabama.
		Black gave a nationally broadcast radio address explaining his decision to join and then resign from the Klan.
		Black was often labeled an "activist" because of his willingness to review legislation that arguably violated constitutional provisions.
	www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/legal_entity/76/biography (270 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		Hugo always shied away from television, yet I thought it would be a shame for future law students and citizens not to have the opportunity to see and to hear the eloquence and sincerity of Hugo, whose opinions had made such an impact on the law of the land.
		Hugo responded a week after the interview with a word of optimism: "Judging from the number of communications I have received from every part of the Nation in the past few days, I would say that you are in a minority in wanting to see all the members of the Supreme Court impeached.
		Hugo's comment on Bob Jackson caught one viewer's ear and he wrote in to applaud Hugo for it: "It was magnanimous of you to speak as you did of the late Judge Jackson.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c17_j.html (12603 words)

	Hugo Lafayette Black, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
		Hugo LaFayette Black was born February 27, 1886, in a crossroads cabin in the small-farm cotton country of Alabama.
		Black soon to be named to the Court, developed his antipathy to the concept of "substantive due process," an antipathy he maintained throughout his life.
		Black was a liberal, indeed a radical in 1937 terms, and outspokenly against the trend of the Court.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hlblack.htm (5477 words)

	Hugo LaFayette Black Papers (Library of Congress)
		Copyright Status: Copyright in the unpublished writings of Hugo L. Black in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress is dedicated to the public but reserved to certain members of the family during the lifetime of each member.
		A persistent theme in the Black Papers after 1954 is the tension between Black's Southern loyalty and the anger of friends, relatives, and former associates who opposed his position in Brown v.
		Black defended the plan in the Senate and on radio, receiving as a consequence thousands of letters from across Alabama and throughout the country.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/blackh.html (3726 words)

	Cleburne News - What's wrong with Alabama?
		Young Stephen Black has blood-knowledge of that story; two great men whose opposing philosophies caused a bitter breach but who, in their final years, developed a warm bond of respectful friendship.
		Black and Frankfurter both saw the law as bastion against any threat to liberty — Frankfurter believing that stronger courts and judges would achieve that end.
		Black's viewpoints was expressed in a letter to a relative before his victorious 1926 Senate campaign.
	www.cleburnenews.com /columnists/2002/cn-bayers-0704-0-2g05k2355.htm (638 words)

	Bolling v. Sharpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Racial segregation in the public schools of the District of Columbia is a denial to Negro children of the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
		James Nabrit, a professor of law at the historically fl Howard University filed suit on behalf of Bolling and the other students in the District Court for the District of Columbia seeking assistance in the students' admission.
		When the court dismissed the claim, the case was granted a writ of certiorari by the Supreme Court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bolling_v._Sharpe (567 words)

	Amazon.com: Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolution: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Black's views were based on the democratic power of the people to govern while Douglas saw the primacy of liberty and individual rights as limiting the state's ability to impose restrictions upon personal freedoms.
		Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, two of the towering Supreme Court justices of this century, formed a fascinating personal and professional relationship that lasted for more than 30 years, from the 1930s to the 1970s.
		Hugo Black was a much admired, congenial man. A gracious Southerner, he could be as hard and immovable as granite once he'd made up his mind.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195046129?v=glance (919 words)

	Hugo Lafayette Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A constitutional literalist to whom every word in the document represented a command, he, nonetheless, used the language of the Constitution to propound a jurisprudence that has had a lasting effect on the development of American constitutional law.
		They stand as jurisprudential and intellectual landmarks in the evolving history of the land he loved so well.
		In the long run Black's achievements encompass securing the central meaning of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
	www.ripon.edu /faculty/bowenj/antitrust/Black.htm (137 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hugo LaFayette Black (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Hugo LaFayette Black 1886–1971, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1937–71), b.
		His appointment to the Supreme Court by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met strong opposition from the public and in the Senate because of his earlier membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
		Black was, however, a staunch defender of civil liberties, and he became the leader of the activists on the Supreme Court, consistently opposing congressional and state violations of free speech and due process.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Black-HLaF.html (279 words)

	AMAsearchdetail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugo LaFayette Black was born in Harlan, Alabama.
		Black believed strongly that the rights of free speech, free press, and religious liberty were absolutes.
		Black was an influential Supreme Court justice for thirty-four years and retired in 1971.
	www.fofweb.com /onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=8044 (116 words)

	BLACK, Hugo Lafayette (1886-1971) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Black: The Memoirs of Hugo L. Black and Elizabeth Black.
		Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights: Proceedings of the First Hugo Black Symposium in American History on “The Bill of Rights and American Democracy.” University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1978.
		In Memoriam, Honorable Hugo Lafayette Black: Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, Proceedings Before the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1972.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=B000499 (392 words)

	Hugo Lafayette Black Biography / Biography of Hugo Lafayette Black Biography Biography
		The American jurist Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Associate Justice Black was an ardent New Dealer and led the liberal and activist wing of the Court for more than 32 years.
		The youngest in a family of eight, Hugo Black was born on a farm in the rural area of Clay County, Ala., on Feb. 27, 1886.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-hugo-lafayette-black (243 words)

	Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
		The papers of Hugo LaFayette Black, lawyer, United States senator from Alabama, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, were given to the Library of Congress by his widow, children, and others, 1972-1976.
		Copyright in the unpublished writings of Hugo L. Black in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress is dedicated to the public but reserved to certain members of the family during the lifetime of each member.
		The papers of Hugo LaFayette Black (1886-1971) span the years 1883 to 1976, with the bulk of the material beginning in 1926, the year of Black's successful campaign for the United States Senate.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/eadmss/ms001046/ms001046.sgm (1810 words)

	Amazon.com: Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warrior: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Relying on Black's files in the Library of Congress and on interviews with his family and colleagues, Ball (political science, Univ. of Vermont) takes a more academic approach in his examination of Black as "one of the half-dozen greatest justices" in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Soon after Black's confirmation by the Senate, the story of his Klan membership spread across the nation, prompting Time magazine to write that "Hugo won't have to buy a robe, he can dye his white one fl." One of Black's early opinions for the Court, however, changed most of the negative opinion about him.
		United States, the famous Pentagon Papers case in 1971 (Black's last opinion for the Court which defended a newspaper's First Amendment rights), Black emerges as a staunch defender of federalism and the primacy of the First Amendment, a strict, literal interpreter of the Constitution, and always proud to be a member of the Supreme Court.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195078144?v=glance (865 words)

	Ask the Editors: Justice Hugo Black
		Alabama Sen. Hugo Lafayette Black was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1937.
		After his confirmation, Black was criticized by the public for his involvement with the Ku Klux Klan.
		During Black's term as associate justice, which lasted until his retirement in 1971, he was a passionate defender of civil liberties, an absolutist when it came to interpreting the First Amendment and an enthusiastic supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation.
	www.infoplease.com /askeds/4-12-00askeds.html (245 words)

	Arlington National Cemetery:: Historical Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugo Black served as a police judge and country solicitor in Birmingham, Ala., before entering the private practice of law in 1919.
		During his 12 years in the senate, Senator Black introduced a bill which later became the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
		During his years on the court, Black always carried a copy of the United States Constitution in his pocket.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.org /text/hugo_layfayett_black_text.html (136 words)

	WowEssays.com - Eighteen Year Old Vote
		Mr Justice Black continues:] Central to all of the Framers of the Bill of Rights was the idea that since Government, particularly the national government newly created, is a powerful institution, its officials - all of them - must be compelled to exercise their powers within strictly defined boundaries.
		It was the desire to give the people of America greater protection against the powerful Federal Government than the English had had against their government that caused the Framers to put these freedoms of expression, again in the words of Madison, beyond the reach of this Government.
		Justice Black and the Bill of Rights - Hugo LaFayette Black: A collection of his Supreme Court opinions - Published 1963 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.] The distinguished group of delegates who assembled in Philadelphia in May 1787 included many who would be important in the conduct of the new nation's affairs.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Hugo Blackhugo Black: a Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Supreme Court Justice Black (1886-1971), a noted civil libertarian and populist, is done justice in this first comprehensive biography, written with the cooperation of his family.
		On the Court, Black grew into a staunch defender of the Bill of Rights and, as one of his clerks wrote, a judge concerned most with "the human being involved." He battled with order-loving rival Felix Frankfurter to fight McCarthy-era speech restrictions and, as the 1960s began, became the country's foremost First Amendment absolutist.
		Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black is described by the author as controversial and influential: controversial for an earlier Ku Klux Klan membership; influential for his lasting impact on the law.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679431802 (597 words)

	Justia Legal Web Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Columbia Journalism Review - Hugo Black: A Biography - Book review, outlining Justice Black's philosophies and contributions to United States jurisprudence.
		Hugh Lafayette Black, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court - Biography of Justice Black from Arlington National Cemetery.
		Hugo Black and the KKK - Describing Justice Black's controvercial background, and his emergence as a proponent of civil rights.
	directory.justia.com /law/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Legal_History/Black,_Hugo_Lafayette (157 words)

	Bubba The Love Sponge ® - Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		President Roosevelt’s first appointee to the Supreme Court was Justice Hugo Lafayette Black in 1937.
		He served on the Court for thirty-four years and is one of the most respected practitioners of jurisprudence that our nation has ever had on the bench.
		One who believes as Justice Black did is called names and looked upon as having views outside the mainstream.
	www.btls.com /media/hatley.php (2007 words)

	Mr. Justice Black
		Additional material relates to attempts to desegregate law schools in 1951 while Frank was a professor at Yale Law School and the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to assist in reducing the work of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1983-1987.
		The correspondence began when Frank was a law clerk for Black in 1942 and continued until Black's death in 1971.
		Also documented in the papers are Frank's efforts to desegregate law schools in 1951 while a professor at Yale Law School and his interest in the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to assist in reducing the work of the Supreme Court.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/eadmss/ms004007/ms004007.sgm (543 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Baptist Politicians in Maryland
		Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) — also known as Hugo L. Black — of Birmingham,
		Black : Cold Steel Warrior; James F Simon,
		The antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and civil liberties in modern America; Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper,
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/MD/baptist.html (1190 words)

	University of Baltimore School of Law Library Supreme Court Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of power and right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's constitutional revolution.
		KF 8745.D6 A3 Dunne, Gerald T. Hugo Black and the judicial revolution.
		The fl robe and the bald eagle: the Supreme Court and the foreign policy of the United States, 1789-present.
	law.ubalt.edu /lawlib/bibs/supcourtp.html (2700 words)

	Black, Hugo Lafayette (on LawFizz.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Information on Justice Black from the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
		Biography of Justice Black from Arlington National Cemetery.
		Describing Justice Black's controvercial background, and his emergence as a proponent of civil rights.
	www.lawfizz.com /Legal_Information/Legal_History/Black,_Hugo_Lafayette (142 words)

	The Supreme Court 1999 Term - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those in the first camp -- call them documentarians -- seek inspiration and discipline in the amended Constitution's specific words and word patterns, the historical experiences that birthed and rebirthed the text, and the conceptual schemas and structures organizing the document.
		I have in mind interpreters like Justice Hugo Black, Dean John Hart Ely, and Professors Steven Calabresi and Douglas Laycock
		See, e.g., HUGO LAFAYETTE BLACK, A CONSTITUTIONAL FAITH (1968); Hugo L. Black, "The Bill of Rights", 35 N.Y.U. (1980); Steven G. Calabresi & Kevin H. Rhodes, "The Structural Constitution: Unitary Executive, Plural Judiciary", 105 HARV.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=96528585 (455 words)

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