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HISPANIC CIVIL RIGHTS SER: MY DEMONS WERE REAL

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<P>Even as a teenager, Joseph Albert Calamia understood the need to live by the rule of law. In high school, a class bully’s continual harassment of a skinny Hispanic kid led Joseph to confront him. But he wisely did so with the coach’s permission, challenging the boy to a boxing match. The tormentor went down quickly and Calamia settled the score under the jurisdiction of the high school coach.  Calamia began his career as a criminal defense attorney in El Paso, Texas, in 1949. He was a crusader for justice, considered by many to be akin to Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. But he disagreed, <Q>The big difference is that my demons were real.</Q> His demons were the institutionalized practices that favored expediency over the rights of individuals; he spent his lifetime fighting to ensure peoples’ rights were not trampled by law makers and enforcers.  A World War II veteran, Calamia grew up in El Paso’s Segundo Barrio, a few blocks from the Rio Grande River that separated Mexico from the United States. He grew up in a world that expected those of Mexican descent to maintain their inferior status. But he couldn’t stand by and let injustice occur without a fight. Over the course of his long career, Calamia successfully challenged a host of attacks against civil liberties, including police undercover tactics and the constitutionality of searches and seizures in drug, immigration, and other cases. Published as part of <EM>Hispanic Civil Rights Series</EM>, this enlightening book documents the efforts of one man who devoted his life to protecting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.</P>

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My Demons Were Real: Constitutional Lawyer Joseph Calamia’s Journey