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Stolberg, Mary Margaret was born on September 8, 1956 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of David Fox and Anne Stewart Stolberg.
( In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) rec...)
In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, going on to become the first black vice president and general counsel of General Motors. Born in the slums of Memphis, Tennessee, Smith was the illegitimate son of a black domestic worker and her prominent white employer. Although he identified with his mother's blackness, he inherited his father's white complexion. This left him open to racism from whites, who resented his African American heritage, and blacks, who resented his skin color. Throughout his life, Smith worked with and met many prominent Americans. He knew boxer Joe Louis, future general Daniel "Chappie" James, future Detroit mayor Coleman Young, and the nation's first African American general, B. O. Davis Jr. Through politics he knew Michigan's prominent politicians and was appointed by Governor John Swainson to the Michigan Supreme Court, making him the first black man since Reconstruction to sit on any supreme court in the nation. Smith also knew nationally known figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Estes Kevfauver, and presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Through his civil rights work, he met A. P. Tureaud, Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks, and he worked closely with Vernon Jordan. Looking Beyond Race provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of America's largest corporation. Smith was an early advocate of the increased cooperation between business and government that was so necessary for business negotiating the complexities of a global economy. In 1983 he retired as general counsel for the corporation,having been the company's first black officer. This memoir, which Smith dictated during the three years before his death in 1994, is a compelling tale that ends with the inspirational story of Smith's reconciliation with his white relatives who still live in the South. In this highly readable memoir, Looking Beyond Race provides a moving tale that will appeal to readers interested in African American history, politics, labor relations, business, and Michigan history.
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(Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of Georg...)
Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of George Clifton Edwards, Jr., Detroit's visionary police commissioner whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting, and community policing to Detroit's police department in the early 1960s met with much controversy within the city's administration. At a crucial time when the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum and hostility between urban police forces and African Americans was close to eruption, Edwards chose solving racial and urban problems as his mission. Incorporating material from a manuscript that Edwards wrote before his death, supplemented by historical research, Stolberg provides a rare case study of problems in policing, the impoverishment of American cities, and the evolution of race relations during the turbulent 1960s. Edwards' vision and hope for Detroit gives depth to the national view of Detroit as a symbol of urban decline and offers lessons to be applied to current social and urban problems.
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(A thoughtful and colorful account of the 'law and order' ...)
A thoughtful and colorful account of the 'law and order' issue in Franklin Roosevelt's own New York State, showing how a young Republican, Thomas Dewey, captured the nation's attention and almost succeeded FDR in the White House by waging war on big time crime and Empire State politics. -- Calvin Woodard, University of Virginia
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Stolberg, Mary Margaret was born on September 8, 1956 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of David Fox and Anne Stewart Stolberg.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1977; Master of Arts, University of Virginia, 1986; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 1991.
Reporter, S.W. Times Record, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1977-1978; reporter, The Pittsburgh Press, 1978-1984; lecturer, assistant professor, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1990-1993; independent scholar, Boone, North Carolina, since 1993.
(A thoughtful and colorful account of the 'law and order' ...)
( In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) rec...)
(Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of Georg...)
(Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of Georg...)
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Member American Society for Legal History, American History Association, Organisation of America Historians.
Married Lynn Doyle, January 18, 1986 (divorced 2000).