Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P3 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 8 BELL DERRICK ALBERT JR. CIVIL RIGHTS CAM- PAIGNS AIMED AT CHANGING THE RULES WITHOUT AFFECTING THE UNDERLYING STATUS QUO. Derrick Bell Jr. landlord who had ignored her requests for months that she refused to pay the rent unless he fixed the stairs. A few days later the landlord fixed their steps and all the other broken steps on their road. Bell s interpretation of the event Good things happen when you push. Bell has also said that he carries his father s dignified suspicion of whites in hard-time Pittsburgh and his mother s homespun conception of a rights-based economy of self-respecting agitation. The eldest of four children Bell earned a bachelor of arts degree and an Air Force commission when he graduated from Duquesne University in 1952 and then he served in the Korean war. While in the Air Force Bell made his first discreet push for racial equality he complained to the commanding officer at a base in Louisiana about black soldiers having to sit in the back of the bus whenever they left base. After his military stint he attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Law lived at home and kept the books for his father Derrick Bell Sr. who ran a trash-collection business. Bell was elected as the associate editor-in-chief for the Pittsburgh law REVIEW a prestigious position for a student to hold at any law school. He competed strenuouslyin law school and has admitted to being a little obnoxious in his attempt to succeed in an otherwise all-white class in the yearbook underneath his picture the following description is given Knows everything and wants others to know he knows everything. After graduating fourth in his class and being admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1957 Bell applied to a top local law firm which had asked the law school to send over its best students. When I walked in there were all these gasps he said. It was like a line of heart attacks down the hall. Bell did not get the job but he did go on to become one of only three black .
