The Search for Justice : Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975 /

The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold out the promise of a new and better nation. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffer, Peter Charles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Temas:
Civil rights lawyers > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Law > United States > History > 20th century.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States.
LAW / General.
Brown v. Board of Education.
Civil Rights Law.
Civil Rights Lawyers.
Civil Rights Movement.
Jim Crow.
Lawyers.
NAACP.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
School Segregation.
Segregation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Lawyering in the Civil Rights Era
  • Prologue: The Long Night of Jim Crow
  • 1. The Road to Sweatt v. Painter
  • 2. Brown v. Board of Education
  • 3. Making the Case for Segregation
  • 4. They Had a Dream
  • 5. Whose Victory? Whose Defeat?
  • 6. Legal Academics and Civil Rights Lawyering
  • Conclusion: Politics or Law? Legacies of Lawyering in the Civil Rights Era
  • Index

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