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Champion of civil rights Judge John Minor Wisdom / by Friedman, Joel Wm. (Joel William), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…A privileged son of the South -- From birth to Bonnie to the branch, 1905-1946 -- At the bar, 1948-1953 -- Battling the bosses : creating a two-party system in Louisiana -- The 1952 convention : victories for Eisenhower and a two-party system in Louisiana -- Assuming the bench : nomination and confirmation -- The Fifth Circuit's emerging intellectual leader, 1957-1966 -- Showdown in Mississippi : standing up for James Meredith and to Ross Barnett -- The first step in desegregating the South : enforcing Brown's mandate in Louisiana -- Implementing Brown throughout the nation -- Internal discord threatens the court -- Honoring the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment : the voting rights cases -- A vigilant steward of fairness -- The civil rights struggles of the 1970s and 1980s : equal opportunity in employment -- The unsuccessful campaign to save the Fifth Circuit -- Honoring the legacy.…”
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Making civil rights law Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 / by Tushnet, Mark V., 1945-

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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" : Michigan, 1948-1968 / by Fine, Sidney, 1920-2009

Table of Contents: “…"An ugly picture" : civil rights in Michigan, 1948 -- "A jewel in the crown of all of us" : Michigan enacts a Fair Employment Practices Act, 1949-1955 -- "A small beginning" : Fair Employment Practices, 1955-1963 -- "Wrestling with ... the cause of civil rights, 1949-1962 -- "The most pressing problem" in civil rights : housing discrimination, 1949-1962 -- The disadvantaged, 1949-1962 : the aged, women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped -- "The excluded" : migrant farm labor, 1949-1962 -- "The Democrats must stand up and be counted" -- Civil rights and the Michigan Constitution of 1963 -- The year of transition : 1963 -- The Civil Rights Commission and employment discrimination -- The Civil Rights Commission and discrimination in education, public accommodations, and housing -- Women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped, 1964-1968 -- "Disturbing conditions and unmet needs" : the migrant labor problem, 1964-1968 -- The Civil Rights Commission, law enforcement, and the Detroit riot of 1967 -- Since 1968.…”
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Radicals in their own time four hundred years of struggle for liberty and equal justice in America / by Lawrence, Michael Anthony, 1959-

Subjects: “…Civil rights United States History.…”
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Charles H. Houston an interdisciplinary study of civil rights leadership / by Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950

Table of Contents: “…Constructive Engagement -- Chapter 5: The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and Houstonian Jurisprudence in the -- Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement -- Katherine Bankole Medina -- Chapter 6: Charles Hamilton Houston and Post-New Negro Movement Authority: -- The Socio-Literary History of a Legal Warrior -- Christel N. …”
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Liberty a history of civil liberties in Australia / by Waghorne, James

Subjects: “…Civil rights Australia History.…”
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From Jim Crow to civil rights the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality / by Klarman, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…The Plessy era -- The progressive era -- The interwar period -- World War II era : context and cases -- World War II era : consequences -- School desegregation -- Brown and the civil rights movement.…”
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Civil liberties and the state a documentary and reference guide / by Latimer, Christopher P.

Subjects: “…Civil rights United States History Sources.…”
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Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights movement abridged edition of "From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality " / by Klarman, Michael J.

“…Brown versus Board of Education and the civil rights movement…”
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Changing channels the civil rights case that transformed television / by Mills, Kay

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Representing the race the creation of the civil rights lawyer / by Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964-

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The judge the life & opinions of Alabama's Frank M. Johnson, jr. / by Sikora, Frank, 1936-

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Reasoning from race feminism, law, and the civil rights revolution / by Mayeri, Serena

Table of Contents: “…The rebirth of race-sex analogies -- "Women and minorities" -- Recession, reaction, retrenchment -- Reasoning from sex -- Lost intersections -- The late civil rights era.…”
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The Civil Rights Act and the battle to end workplace discrimination : a 50 year history / by Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-

Subjects: “…United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964.…”
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There when we needed him Wiley Austin Branton, civil rights warrior / by Kilpatrick, Judith, 1946-

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Race, rape, and injustice documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era / by Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010

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Undoing Plessy : Charles Hamilton Houston, race, labor, and the law, 1895-1950 / by Andrews, Gordon

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Brown v. Board of Education a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy / by Patterson, James T.

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Blue laws and Black codes conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia / by Wallenstein, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The case of the laborer from Louisa : conscripts, convicts, and public roads, 1890s-1920s -- Necessity, charity, and a sabbath : citizens, courts, and Sunday closing laws, 1920s-1980s -- These new and strange beings : race, sex, and the legal profession, 1870s-1970s -- The siege against segregation : Black Virginians and the law of civil rights -- To sit or not to sit : scenes in Richmond from the civil rights movement -- Racial identity and the crime of marriage : the view from twentieth-century Virginia -- Power and policy in an American state : federal courts, political rights, and policy outcomes -- From Harry Byrd to Douglas Wilder : gender, race, and judgeships.…”
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Raymond Pace Alexander a new Negro lawyer fights for civil rights in Philadelphia / by Canton, David A.

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