Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-250) and index.
Contents:
Voices from Peoria -- The CRS's legal and political strategies for improving civil rights protections -- Dead dogs, bad divorces, and dope-peddling sheriffs: the subject matter of civil rights complaint letters -- The common place of lawyering: using legal and constitutional arguments to support novel civil rights claims -- Underlying commitments of rights claiming: extralegal persuasive claims and citizen understandings of law -- In defense of extravagant rights talk -- Appendix: notes on the archival sources.
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