WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS OF DAMON J. KEITH
Year: 2016
Country:
USA
Run Time:
104 minutes
In 1967—a time of great racial turmoil in our country—Judge Damon J. Keith was appointed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by President Lyndon B. Johnson. After having grown up in segregated Detroit and serving in WWII in a segregated army, the African-American Keith would become the judge in some of this country’s landmark cases dealing with segregation and civil rights. From overseeing issues of bussing, housing, hiring practices, and police procedure, Judge Keith was impacting our nation’s laws from his seat in Detroit. WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS OF DAMON J. KEITH is a tapestry of interviews with Judge Keith, now 93, his contemporaries, his family, and those whose lives were made better because of the work Keith did from the bench. Now on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Keith continues to be the embodiment of the American ideal that honor, courage, and truth can still defeat injustice at every turn. —T.W.
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Sidebars
AFRICAN DIASPORA
RACE RELATIONS
Genre
Recommended for High School Students +
Competition
Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Competition
Related Daily Postings
Justice from the Bench: Honoring a Lifetime of Service
Director
Jesse Nesser
Filmography
"The Ranch for Kids" (2013), WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS OF DAMON J. KEITH (2016)
Producers
Mitch Albom, Edsel Ford, Faye Nelson, Sally Davis, Patrick Lane
Cinematography
Reuben Aaronson
Editing
Jesse Nesser
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