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Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
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Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 Hardcover - 1994

by Tushnet, Mark V

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Oxford University Press, 1994. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780195084122
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  • Title Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
  • Author Tushnet, Mark V
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Date 1994
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8679242
  • ISBN 9780195084122 / 0195084128
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.44 x 1.25 in (24.23 x 16.36 x 3.18 cm)
  • Reading level 1450
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Civil rights - United States - History, Judges - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93000397
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

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 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. Making Civil Rights Law provides a compelling portrait 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. It is an important andinformative work for lawyers, and students and scholars of American legal history and the history of the civil rights movement in the United States.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 01/03/1994, Page 67

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