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Author:
Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.
Title:
The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975 / Peter Charles Hoffer.
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
pages cm
Subject:
Civil rights lawyers--United States--History--20th century.
Law--United States--History--20th century.
Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.
United States--History--1945-
Since 1900
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
022661428X
9780226614281
022661431X
9780226614311
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1050143069
LCCN:
2018035644
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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