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245 00 Soul of Justice :|bThelton Henderson's American Journey. 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2005. 
520    Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than 
       Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal District 
       Court of Northern California. His career in many ways 
       parallels the larger historic arc of the Civil Rights 
       movement and the changing vision of government - from Jim 
       Crow laws to Civil Rights victories and back again with 
       recent attacks on affirmative action. Similarly reflected 
       are the changes and conflicts in judicial philosophy 
       during those 40 years. Henderson's decisions on 
       affirmative action, environmental protection and prison 
       reform - and the furors that surrounded them - serve as a 
       prism on these changes and what they mean for American 
       society. The son of a domestic worker, Thelton Henderson 
       has spent much of his life as the "first or only" African 
       American in his field. He became the first Black attorney 
       in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, 
       the first Black member of a prestigious California law 
       firm and, in 1980, only the second African American ever 
       appointed to the Federal District bench in Northern 
       California. Henderson was recruited from Boalt Law School 
       in 1962 to diversify the all-white Justice Department team
       monitoring the Civil Rights struggle. He was on the scene 
       as James Meredith braved venomous mobs to integrate Ol' 
       Miss, when Medgar Evers was assassinated and when four 
       little girls were killed in the Birmingham church bombing.
       In his role at the Justice Department, Henderson embodied 
       the tension described by Andrew Young as being an "arm of 
       the law in a sometimes lawless society." As a "neutral" 
       federal observer he performed a precarious balancing act, 
       between being "a just-the-facts Joe Friday and hurling his
       body into the fray of injustice." Decades later, Henderson
       brought these life experiences with him to the bench. When
       a state proposition outlawed affirmative action in 
       California universities in 1996, threatening the gains won
       at such great cost during the '60s, Judge Henderson ruled 
       the proposition unconstitutional. Despite his attention to
       impartiality and his reliance on sound legal judgment, his
       decision unleashed torrents of criticism that he was a 
       "judicial activist," his impeachment was called for on the
       floor of Congress and his decision was overturned on 
       appeal. But his other landmark decisions, including 
       protection of dolphins from deadly tuna nets, were upheld.
       At age 71, when most judges are enjoying retirement, Judge
       Henderson placed California's notorious prison health 
       system under federal control, and his ruling on prison 
       overcrowding was upheld in 2011 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
       Our country is divided over the role that judges should 
       play in enforcing the law. Henderson's rulings, often 
       protecting the constitutional rights of the dispossessed, 
       demand each of us to scrutinize the complex interplay 
       between the law, political power and social justice. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Henderson, Thelton E.|d1933-. 
650  0 African American judges|zUnited States|zCalifornia. 
650  0 African Americans|xCivil rights|vHistory|y20th Century
       |zUnited States. 
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