Noteworthy Hamm Publishes Book on Arthur Garfield Hays

Richard F. Hamm's new book, Confronting Racism: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Fight for Equality, 1925-1954, has been published by SUNY Press. The book examines how Hays, a Jewish corporate lawyer, became an unlikely civil rights advocate. Grounded in the Bill of Rights, his legal battles revealed both the promise and limits of civil liberties law in confronting segregation.