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The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975 / Peter Charles Hoffer.
LIBRA KF299.C48 H64 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights lawyers--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights lawyers.
- Law--United States--History--20th century.
- Law.
- Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights.
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.
- Segregation in education.
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--History--1945-.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226614281
- 022661428X
- 9780226614311
- 022661431X
- OCLC:
- 1050143069
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