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The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975
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'The Search for Justice' is a study of the role of lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution. The work focuses on school desegregation from 1950 to 1975 and includes counsel on both sides of the strug...
'The Search for Justice' is a study of the role of lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution. The work focuses on school desegregation from 1950 to 1975 and includes counsel on both sides of the struggle in the courtroom and in Congress, the federal and state judges and justices, and law school constitutional authorities. Key cases include Sweatt volume Painter, Brown volume Board of Education, and NAACP volume Alabama. Key players include Thurgood Marshall, Robert L. Carter, John W. Davis, Earl Warren, James Patterson, Strom Thurmond, Richard Russell, Alexander Bickel, and Herbert Wechsler. The argument is that the outcome of the struggle was never inevitable: lawyers for segregation did an able job of representing their clients, and in some sense were successful with resegregating neighborhood schools.
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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
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9780226614458, 022661445X, 9780226614281, 022661428X, 9780226614311, 022661431X
- OCLC
- on1089684088
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Lawyering in the civil rights era -- Prologue: the long night of Jim Crow -- The road to Sweatt volume Painter -- Brown volume 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