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The Road to Justice: Civil Rights and Legal Developments
Fred D. Gray
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The United States made enormous progress toward racial justice since World War II. Fred D. Gray, one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights lawyers, analyzes legal developments in this field, drawing on his own leading role in many landmark civil rights cases.
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Is religious belief irrational? Is reason irreligious? If not, how can the two be reconciled?
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Publisher: American Council of Learned Societies (1999)
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Author: Jerome I Friedman
Publisher: Office of University Relations, National University of Singapore (1997)
Binding: Unknown Binding, 92 pages

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