[PDF] Making Civil Rights Law eBook

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0195084128

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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 : Michael Meltsner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813926957

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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 : 42,17 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0195093143

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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 : Megan Ming Francis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107037107

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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 V. Tushnet
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780197719930

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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 : Anthony Lewis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307787826

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A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel—and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury—because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers—and ordinary citizens—can print or say.

Author : Kenneth W. Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674065301

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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 : Mark Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195357655

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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 : Ellen D. Katz
Publisher : Michigan Publishing Services
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781607853688

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On October 11, 2013, a diverse group of civil rights scholars met at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor to assess the interpretation, development, and administration of civil rights law in the five decades since President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. In the volume that follows, readers will find edited versions of the papers that these scholars presented, enriched by our lively discussions at and after the conference. We hope that the essays in this volume will contribute to the continuing debates regarding the civil rights project in the United States and the world.

Author : Jamal Greene
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 1328518116

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