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A Plowboy's Judicial Coronation and the Intersection of Law and Religion: An Autobiography

A Plowboy's Judicial Coronation and the Intersection of Law and Religion: An Autobiography

Coleman, James H., Jr.

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1977222099
ISBN13: 9781977222091
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: Jul 30 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book uses history, literature, and constitutionalism to tell the story about a poor African American male, born to illiterate former sharecropper parents, on the kitchen table of a farm house without electricity or plumbing, with the help of his maternal grandmother's hands. I was born in Southside Virginia during the Great Depression and the height of racial segregation and white supremacy. This book paints a word picture of my Horatio Alger struggle to obtain an education through the 7th grade and beyond while always striving for excellence in pursuit of my American Dream. Even early pursuit of my American Dream involved conflicts over which of three options I had to pursue: whether to become a Baptist Minister like my childhood church assumed I would, a medical doctor as my mother wished, or a lawyer-judge, a sort of Secular Minister for Justice. My conflict was resolved when I realized that all three involved some form of human healing. Part of my early conflict was influenced by the role of the Oak Grove Baptist Church had played during the first 15 years of my life, the role of the Episcopal Church had played in my first two years of high school, the influence of being Assistant Superintendent of Sunday School beginning at age fifteen, and the influence of my mother's deeply religious beliefs, all of which help to explain the connection between law and religion in my autobiography.

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