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The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975
- Title
- The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975 / Peter Charles Hoffer.
- Author
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 200 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Since 1900
- 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
- Civil rights
- Civil rights lawyers
- Law
- Segregation in education > Law and legislation
- United States > History > 1945-
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1349
- ISBN
- 9780226614281
- 022661428X
- 9780226614311
- 022661431X
- 9780226614458 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018035644
- OCLC
- 1050143069
- Author
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.
- Title
- The search for justice : lawyers in the civil rights revolution, 1950-1975 / Peter Charles Hoffer.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1900
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1349