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03471aam a2200385 i 4500 001 1866E3E0803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 220328s2022 laua 001 0aeng 010 $a 2022014805 020 $a 080717811X 020 $a 9780807178119 035 $a (OCoLC)1322049338 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IMD $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-la 050 00 $a KF373.P545 $b A3 2022 100 1 $a Pitcher, Freddie, $d 1945- $e author. 245 10 $a Breaking barriers : $b a view from the bench / $c Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 177 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Election night : a night of anxiety and jubilation -- How it all began -- Career path : working the politics -- The phone call that started it all -- Running for judge and challenges -- Making another run : Nineteenth Judicial District Court -- Elected : Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court -- Moving up : Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal -- Postjudicial years and new heights in Academia. 520 $a "This memoir describes how Freddie Pitcher made history in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by becoming the first Black elected to judgeships at three different levels of the court system. Pitcher recounts his early years in Valley Park-a semi-rural and segregated community-revealing that one of his cousins, a civil rights attorney, served as his role model and inspired him to become both a lawyer and change agent. He depicts what it was like to grow up in the segregated South and how the pangs of racial discrimination fueled his drive to challenge the norms of the Baton Rouge judiciary later in life. Pitcher discusses how he systematically forged together Black political organizations, the Black church community, and a group of white attorneys into a campaign coalition that ultimately helped him overcome the racial barriers that prevented Blacks from ascending to the judiciary in Baton Rouge. He details the strategy used to win seats on both the Baton Rouge City and the 19th Judicial District courts when many said a Black could not win a city- or parish-wide election. He later describes many of the challenges he faced as the first and only Black judge in Baton Rouge while highlighting some of the notable cases he tried and sharing his beliefs about judging and the judicial process. Pitcher's story will provide readers with an informative, educational, and inspirational perspective about how Blacks strove and persevered in their efforts to overcome the many roadblocks to their full participation in the political process related to the judiciary"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Pitcher, Freddie, $d 1945- 650 0 $a African American judges $z Louisiana $v Biography. 650 7 $a African American judges. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799211 651 7 $a Louisiana. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207035 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Pitcher, Freddie, 1945- $t Breaking barriers $d Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022] $z 9780807178102 $w (DLC) 2022014806 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230517010517.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1866E3E0803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search