Making civil rights law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 /

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tushnet, Mark, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Temas:
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993.
Marshall, Thurgood, > (1908-1993)
Civil rights > United States > History.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
LAW > Constitutional.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
LAW > Public.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Civil rights.
Judges.
Droits de l'homme > Etats-Unis > Histoire.
United States.
Rights > Law
United States
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: You'll Never Find a Better Constitution
  • 1. Setting the Stage: Baltimore and the NAACP; 2. No Star Performance: The Office in the 1940's; 3. You Did All You Could . . .: Routine Work in the 1940's; 4. A Negro on Trial for His Life: Criminal Law and Race Discrimination; 5. The Increasing Power of Private Discrimination; 6. A Carefully Planned Program: Attacking Restrictive Covenants; 7. Interference with the Effective Choice of the Voters: Challenging the White Primary; 8. Passing Through a Transition: Education Cases, 1939-1945
  • 9. To ""Determine the Future Course of Litigation"": Making the Record on Segregated Universities 10. ""Replete with Road Markings"": The Supreme Court Deals with Segregated Universities; 11. ""A Direct Challenge of the Segregation Statutes"": Making the Record in Brown; 12. ""Behind This Are Certain Facts of Life"": The Law in Brown; 13. ""Boldness Is Essential But Wisdom Indispensable"": Inside the Supreme Court; 14. ""Quietly Ignoring Facts"": Examining History; 15. ""When They Produce Reasons for Delay"": Devising the Remedy
  • 16. To Open the Doors of All Schools: Passive Resistance to Brown, 1955-196117. Civil Rights ... Civil Wrongs: Massive Resistance to Brown, 1955-1961; 18. The Battle Between the Sovereigns: Violent Resistance to Brown, 1955-1961; 19. An Act to Make It Difficult ... to Assert the Constitutional Rights of Negroes: The Attack on the Lawyers, 1955-1961; 20. A Mortal Blow from Which They Will Never Recover: The Attack on the NAACP, 1955-1961; 21. I'd Kind of Outlived My Usefulness: The Changing Context of Civil Rights Litigation; Epilogue: Power, not Reason
  • Notes

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