The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975
Peter Charles Hoffer
Abstract
The Search for Justice is a study of the role of lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution. The work focuses on school desegregation from 1950 to 1975 and includes counsel on both sides of the struggle in the courtroom and in Congress, the federal and state judges and justices, and law school constitutional authorities. Key cases include Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and NAACP v. Alabama. Key players include Thurgood Marshall, Robert L. Carter, John W. Davis, Earl Warren, James Patterson, Strom Thurmond, Richard Russell, Alexander Bickel, and Herbert Wechsler. The argument is th ... More
Keywords: Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, School Segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, Plessy v. Ferguson, NAACP, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Lawyers, Civil Rights Law, Lawyers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226614281 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2019 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226614458.001.0001 |
