Making Civil Rights Law
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Making Civil Rights Law
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Author : Mark V. Tushnet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-02-24
Making Civil Rights Law written by Mark V. Tushnet and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-02-24 with Law categories.
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.
Making Civil Rights Law
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Author : Mark V. Tushnet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Making Civil Rights Law written by Mark V. Tushnet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Civil rights categories.
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.
Making Constitutional Law
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Author : Mark Tushnet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-01
Making Constitutional Law written by Mark Tushnet and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-01 with Law categories.
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.
The Making Of A Civil Rights Lawyer
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Author : Michael Meltsner
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2006
The Making Of A Civil Rights Lawyer written by Michael Meltsner and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Lift Every Voice
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Author : Patricia Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2009-07-29
Lift Every Voice written by Patricia Sullivan and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-29 with History categories.
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.
Civil Rights And The Making Of The Modern American State
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Author : Megan Ming Francis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-21
Civil Rights And The Making Of The Modern American State written by Megan Ming Francis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-21 with History categories.
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.
The Rights Revolution In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Mark V. Tushnet
language : en
Publisher: New Essays on American Constit
Release Date : 2009
The Rights Revolution In The Twentieth Century written by Mark V. Tushnet and has been published by New Essays on American Constit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
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.
Making Rights Real
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Author : Ian Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-08-29
Making Rights Real written by Ian Leigh and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-29 with Law categories.
Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal spheres. This account cuts through the rhetoric and controversy surrounding the Act, generated by its champions and detractors alike, to reach a measured assessment. The true impact in public law, civil law, criminal law and on anti-terrorism legislation are each considered. Finally, the book discusses whether we are now nearer to a new constitutional settlement and to the promised new 'rights culture'.
The Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
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Author : Ann Garity Connell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law written by Ann Garity Connell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African Americans categories.
Making Human Dignity Central To International Human Rights Law
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Author : Matthew McManus
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Making Human Dignity Central To International Human Rights Law written by Matthew McManus and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Law categories.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of writing on the topic of human dignity across a plethora of different academic disciplines. Despite this explosion of interest, there is one group – critical legal scholars – that has devoted little if any attention to human dignity. This book argues that these scholars should attend to human dignity, a concept rich enough to support a whole range of progressive ambitions, particularly in the field of international law. It synthesizes certain liberal arguments about the good of self-authorship with the critical legal philosophy of Roberto Unger and the capabilities approach to agency of Amartya Sen, to formulate a unique conception of human dignity. The author argues how human dignity flows from an individual’s capacity for self-authorship as defined by the set of expressive capabilities s/he possesses, and the book demonstrates how this conception can enrich our understanding of international human rights law by making the amplification of human dignity its fundamental orientation.