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The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975
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- Creator
- Peter Charles Hoffer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 022661431X, 9780226614311, 022661428X, 9780226614281, 9780226614458
- OCLC
- on1050143069
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Lawyering in the civil rights era -- Prologue: the long night of Jim Crow -- The road to Sweatt v. Painter -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Making the case for segregation -- They had a dream -- Whose victory? Whose defeat? -- Legal academics and civil rights lawyering -- Conclusion: Politics or law? Legacies of lawyering in the civil rights era