Making Civil Rights Law

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780195084122

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Making Civil Rights Law is an insightful and provocative narrative history of the legal struggle, led by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which preceded the intense political battles for civil rights. Drawing on personal interviews with Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers, as well as new information about the private deliberations of the Supreme Court, Tushnet tells the dramatic story of how the NAACP Legal Defense Fund led the Court to use the Constitution as an instrument of liberty and justice for all African-Americans. He also offers new insights into how the justices argued among themselves about the historic changes they were to make in American society.

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195359224

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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 march on Selma to register voters, the Supreme Court had to find unconstitutional the Southern Democratic Party's exclusion of African-Americans; and before the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Supreme Court had to strike down the laws allowing for the segregation of public graduate schools, colleges, high schools, and grade schools. Making Civil Rights Law provides a chronological narrative history of the legal struggle, led by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, that preceded the political battles for civil rights. Drawing on interviews with Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers, as well as new information about the private deliberations of the Supreme Court, Tushnet tells the dramatic story of how the NAACP Legal Defense Fund led the Court to use the Constitution as an instrument of liberty and justice for all African-Americans. He also offers new insights into how the justices argued among themselves about the historic changes they were to make in American society. Making Civil Rights Law provides an overall picture of the forces involved in civil rights litigation, bringing clarity to the legal reasoning that animated this "Constitutional revolution", and showing how the slow development of doctrine and precedent reflected the overall legal strategy of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP.

Author : Michael Meltsner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil rights workers
ISBN : 0813926955

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The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer by Michael Meltsner Pdf

As a white Yale Law School graduate, Meltsner began his career with the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, working initially under Thurgood Marshall and later under Jack Greenberg. From his vantage point at LDF, Meltsner witnessed and participated in litigation support of the civil rights movement in the South. As the movement shifted north and the fight for desegregation gave way to black-power slogans, Meltsner remained involved with the LDF and later went on to teach public interest practice at Columbia Law School. He watched the move from the high expectations after the Brown v. Board of Education decision to the lows of subsequent resegregation. He recalls his involvement in other civil rights efforts, from the campaigns to abolish capital punishment to Muhammad Ali's legal battle to regain his right to box. Meltsner closes with a chapter that examines the strategic possibilities of the No Child Left Behind mandate. Meltsner brings a personal perspective to this assessment of the hopes, potential, and shifting terrain of public service law. A worthy read. --Vernon Ford Copyright 2006 Booklist.

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780195093148

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Making Constitutional Law by Mark V. Tushnet Pdf

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice. The first book on Justice Thurgood Marshall's years on the Supreme Court based on a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court papers of Justices Marshall and William J. Brennan, this work describes Marshall's special approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It also describes the Supreme Court's operations during Marshall's tenure, the relations among the justices, and the particular roles played by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Justice Brennan, and Justice Antonin Scalia. The book locates the Supreme Court's actions from 1967 to 1991 in a broader historical and political context, explaining how Marshall's liberalism became increasingly isolated on a Court influenced by nation's drift in a more conservative direction.

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0197719937

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Making Civil Rights Law by Mark V. Tushnet Pdf

This is a chronological narrative history of the legal struggle that preceded the political battles for American civil rights in the early 20th-century, waged by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and its leader, Thurgood Marshall.

Author : Megan Ming Francis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037106

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Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming Francis Pdf

This book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, secured the support of Congress, and won a landmark criminal procedure case in front of the Supreme Court.

Author : Mark Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195357653

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Making Constitutional Law by Mark Tushnet Pdf

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was the first African-American Justice. Based on thorough research in the Supreme Court papers of Justice Marshall and others, this book describes Marshall's approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It locates the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991 in a broader socio-political context, showing how the nation's drift toward conservatism affected the Court's debates and decisions.

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OSU:32435020693461

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Making Civil Rights Sense Out of Revenue Sharing Dollars by United States Commission on Civil Rights Pdf

Author : Juan Williams
Publisher : Crown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307786128

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Thurgood Marshall by Juan Williams Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize “Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, Time Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation in the United States, would have made him a historic figure even if he had never been appointed as the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court. He had a fierce will to change America, which led to clashes with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy. Most surprising was Marshall’s secret and controversial relationship with the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Based on eight years of research and interviews with over 150 sources, Thurgood Marshall is the sweeping and inspirational story of an enduring figure in American life who rose from the descendants of slaves to become an American hero.

Author : Patricia Sullivan
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595585110

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Lift Every Voice by Patricia Sullivan Pdf

A “civil rights Hall of Fame” (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACP’s Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as the South—keeping the promise of democracy alive from the earliest days of the twentieth century to the triumphs of the 1950s and 1960s. Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP’s activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. In the critical post-war era, following a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow. A sweeping and dramatic story woven deep into the fabric of American history—”history that helped shape America’s consciousness, if not its soul” (Booklist) — Lift Every Voice offers a timeless lesson on how people, without access to the traditional levers of power, can create change under seemingly impossible odds.

Author : Kenneth W. Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674065307

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Representing the Race by Kenneth W. Mack Pdf

Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers.

Author : Harold S. Lewis,Elizabeth J. Norman
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063892603

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Civil Rights Law and Practice by Harold S. Lewis,Elizabeth J. Norman Pdf

Tracks the materials surveyed in a number of widely used civil rights casebooks. Includes the principal Reconstruction Acts, related criminal provisions, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Section 1982, Title VIII of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Voting Rights Acts, and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Cites several recent cases, including Buckhannon, Alexander v. Sandoval, Wilson v. Layne; Hafer v. Melo, United States v. Lanier, Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n, and Suter v. Artist.

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : New Essays on American Constit
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0872291650

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The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century by Mark V. Tushnet Pdf

Tushnet traces the concept of legal rightsthrough the 20th century--from their origins in classical liberalism, fashioned in legislatures and emphasizing choice and contract, to notions of personal autonomy and equality protected by the judicial system.

Author : Jeffrey D. Gonda
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469625461

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Unjust Deeds by Jeffrey D. Gonda Pdf

In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nation's courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Restoring this story to its proper place in the history of the black freedom struggle, Jeffrey D. Gonda's groundbreaking study provides a critical vantage point to the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America.

Author : Jamal Greene
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781328518118

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How Rights Went Wrong by Jamal Greene Pdf

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.