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The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975
Title:
The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975
Author:
Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.
ISBN:
9780226614281

9780226614311
Physical Description:
viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.