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Wilson, Paul Edwin was born on November 2, 1913 in Quenemo, Kansas, United States. Son of Dale Edwin and Clara (Jacobs) Wilson.
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Segregation and the Fourteenth Amendment in the States survey of State Segregations laws 1865-1953 prepared for US Supreme Court re Brown vs Board of Education Topeka
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A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education
(This thoughtful and engaging memoir opens up a previously...)
This thoughtful and engaging memoir opens up a previously hidden side to what many consider the most important Supreme Court decision of the twentieth century. With quiet candor Paul Wilson reflects upon his role as the Kansas assistant attorney general assigned "to defend the indefensible"—the policy of "separate but equal" that was overturned on May 17, 1954, by Linda Brown's precedent-shattering suit. The Brown decision ended legally sanctioned racial segregation in our nation's public schools, expanded the constitutional concepts of equal protection and due process of law, and in many ways launched the modern civil rights movement. Since that time, it has been cited by appellate courts in thousands of federal and state cases, analyzed in thousands of books and articles, and remains a cornerstone of law school education. Wilson reminds us that Brown was not one case but four-including similar cases in South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware-and that it was only a quirk of fate that brought this young lawyer to center stage at the Supreme Court. But the Kansas case and his own role, he argues, were different from the others in significant ways. His recollections reveal why. Recalling many events known only to Brown insiders, Wilson re-creates the world of 1950s Kansas, places the case in the context of those times and politics, provides important new information about the state's ambivalent defense, and then steps back to suggest some fundamental lessons about his experience, the evolution of race relations, and the lawyer's role in the judicial resolution of social conflict. Throughout these reflections Wilson's voice shines through with sincerity, warmth, and genuine humility. Far from a self-serving apology by one of history's losers, his memoir reminds us once again that there are good people on every side of the issues that divide us and that truth and meaning are not the special preserve of history's winners.
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- A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education by Wilson, Paul E. (March 30, 1995) Hardcover 1st
- Pattern rules of court and code provisions: Based upon the American Bar Association standards for criminal justice
- A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education by Paul E. Wilson (1995-03-30)
Paul Edwin Wilson
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Paul Edwin Wilson, American lawyer, educator. Bar: Kansas 1940, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1952, United States Court Appeals 1950. Recipient Justice award Kansas Supreme Court, 1992; cited for Distinguished Service to Bar and Public, Kansas Bar Association, 1987, Governor Kansas, House Representatives, Kansas; Distinguished Service award S.W.Kans. Bar Association, 1995.
Education
Bachelor, University Kansas, 1937. Master of Arts, University Kansas, 1938. Bachelor of Laws, Washburn University, 1940.
Career
Private practice law, Ashland, Kansas, 1941-1942;
private practice law, Lyndon, Kansas, 1946-1950;
attorney, County of Osage, Kansas, 1947-1950;
general counsel department social welfare, State of Kansas, 1950-1951;
assistant attorney general, State of Kansas, 1951-1953;
1st assistant attorney general, State of Kansas, 1953-1957;
associate professor of law, University of Kansas, 1957-1962;
professor, University of Kansas, 1962-1968;
Kane professor, University of Kansas, 1968-1981;
professor emeritus, University of Kansas, since 1981. Associate director Institute Judicial Administration, 1964-1965. Visiting professor The Menninger Foundation, 1972.
Consultant in field.
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A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education
(This thoughtful and engaging memoir opens up a previously...)
- A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education by Wilson, Paul E. (March 30, 1995) Hardcover 1st
- Pattern rules of court and code provisions: Based upon the American Bar Association standards for criminal justice
- Segregation and the Fourteenth Amendment in the States survey of State Segregations laws 1865-1953 prepared for US Supreme Court re Brown vs Board of Education Topeka
- A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education by Paul E. Wilson (1995-03-30)
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A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education
Membership
Member Lawrence (Kansas) Planning Commission, 1962-1965. Chairman Board Zoning Appeals, Lawrence, 1966-1967. Member Kansas History Sites Board Review, 1973-1977.
Trustee Fort Burgwin (New Mexico) Research Center, 1976-1979, Task Force for History Preservation, Lawrence, Kansas (Distinguished Service citation 1991), 1987-1989. With United States Army, 1942-1946. Member American Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association (chairman committee criminal law 1960-1968), American Law Institute, American Bar Foundation, Selden Society, National Trust Historic Preservation (board advisors 1972-1978), Kansas State History Society (vice president 1987-1989, president elect 1990, president 1990-1991f, Phi Alpha Delta.
Connections
Married Harriet Eileen Stephens, June 16, 1941. Children: Elizabeth, Mary Paulette, Eileen, David.
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Political Party
Republican
Education
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1937
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1938
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1940
Career
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1947 - 1950
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Recipient Justice award Kansas Supreme Court, 1992. Cited for Distinguished Service to Bar and Public, Kansas Bar Association, 1987, Governor Kansas, House Representatives, Kansas. Distinguished Service award S.W.Kans. Bar Association, 1995.Recipient Justice award Kansas Supreme Court, 1992. Cited for Distinguished Service to Bar and Public, Kansas Bar Association, 1987, Governor Kansas, House Representatives, Kansas. Distinguished Service award S.W.Kans.
Bar Association, 1995.