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xvii acknowledgments A work this long in the making accumulates more indebtedness than can be repaid, except, perhaps, in spirit. I owe large debts of gratitude for unstinting practical and moral support to my colleagues at Georgia State University College of Law and especially to Deans Marjorie Girth, Janice Griffith, and Steven Kaminshine; to my exceptional administrative assistant , Cindy Perry; to generations of able and enthusiastic law student research assistants, including, from Georgia State University College of Law, Roseanne Cross, Harold Franklin, Wendell Franklin, Forrest Graham, Russell Henry, Cheryl Barnes Legare, Delaycee Rowland, Heather Schafer, David Stevens, Nancee Tomlinson, Ben Windham, and Katie Wood; from the University of Texas School of Law, Katie Hutchinson; and from the University of Michigan Law School, Ben F. Johnson IV; and to Nancy Grayson and Jon Davies of the University of Georgia Press, who deftly and gracefully brought this project to fruition. The burden of conducting innumerable interviews and voluminous research was lightened by the receptivity and generosity I encountered repeatedly from, among many others, men who served under Tuttle’s command in World War II, his partners at Sutherland & Tuttle, his colleagues on the bench, attorneys who litigated before him, reporters who covered him, and other historians of the Fifth Circuit, especially Jack Bass, J. Robert Brown Jr., Joel Friedman, Lucy McGough, and Frank Read. The cooperation and the patience of the Tuttle family have been profound . Dr. Elbert Tuttle Jr. and his wife, Ginny, and Jane “Nicky” Tuttle Harmon and her husband, John, shared their own recollections as well as their family records. The grandchildren (Guy, David, Beth, and Jane Tuttle; Betsy Harmon Kappel; and Cappy, Sara, and Peggy Harmon) have all been helpful, but special thanks must go to Beth and Jane, who collated and indexed much of the family memorabilia, and to Betsy’s husband, Bruce Kappel, who edited and interwove Sara and Elbert’s personal recollections and who provided many of the pictures included here. The other Tuttle “family” cannot go unmentioned. Both Elbert Tuttle and his wife, Sara, held his law clerks dear, and the clerks reciprocated that xviii « acknowledgments deep affection. Many clerks shared recollections with me. Special thanks to Fred Aman, who provided copies of the substantial collection of letters from law clerks he collected in 1985 at the behest of the Eleventh Circuit Historical Society. Finally, the unflagging support of my husband, Martin, and our sons, Brooks and Ben, is the foundation on which this work rests. Portions of this work previously appeared, in different form, as “Lynching and the Law in Georgia circa 1931: A Chapter in the Legal Career of Judge Elbert Tuttle,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 5 (1996): 215–48; “Turning the Tide in the Civil Rights Revolution: Elbert Tuttle and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia,” Michigan Journal of Race and Law (Fall 1999): 1–30; “The Tuttle Trilogy: Habeaus Corpus and Human Rights,” Journal of Southern Legal History 5 (2002): 5–24; and “Forming the Historic Fifth Circuit: The Eisenhower Years,” Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 6 (2002): 233–59. ...

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