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Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement

By Jack Greenberg

Book information

ISBN
0974728608
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
407 MB (427009316 bytes)
Edition
Anniversary Edition
Pages
\672
Topic
History
Time added
2022-06-30 21:02:50

Description

Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for 35 years, offers a personal memoir and behind the scenes view of the legal battles of the civil rights movement culminating in the landmark trial and decision, Brown v. Board of Education; the defense of Martin Luther King Jr., the origin of major employment discrimination cases. CONTENTS Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Reflections: Introduction to the Anniversary Edition Part I: Preparing the Ground 1. Prologue: The Moses of the Journey 2. Sowing Seeds 3. Freedom House, 1949 4. Why Me? 5. The Ground is Hard 6. Law Schools in the Supreme Court Part II: Edging Toward a Showdown: Brown v. Board of Education 7. An End to Segregation - Nothing Else 8. Groveland 9. Preparing for Battle 10. Jim Crow and the Voice of God in Kansas 11. Groveland, Delaware, and Dancers Dressed in Feathers 12. The School Segregation Cases and Our Cast of Characters 13. In the House of the Law 14. Back to the Drawing Board Part III: Brown Decided: Eyes on the Future 15. A Historic Turn 16. The Spirit of Black Revolt Stirs and Jim Crow Fights Back 17. Lucy and Little Rock: War of All Men Against All Men 18. Trench Warfare 19. Vivid Memories Part IV: The Movement Takes Off 20. Our of the Courts and Into the Streets 21. New Clients, New Cases, New Theories 22. The New Chief Counsel: I Succeed Thurgood, LDF Transforins 23. Completing the Circle: Freedom Fighters Free Themselves 24. Jim Crow Crushed in Mississippi 25. Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, Fighting Among Freedom Fighters 26. From Selma to Montgomery Part V: The Era of the Civil Rights Act 27. LDF Grows as an Institution 28. Education Following the Defeat of "All Deliberate Speed" 29. Angela Davis, the San Rafael Shootout, and Turmoil at LDF 30. Winning Jobs 31. The War on Poverty: Martin Luther King, Jr. and NORI 32. NORI and Criminal Justice 33. Affirmative Action 34. LDF Goes to Washington 3S. Final Separations 36. Beyond the Rights of Blacks Part VI: Changing the Guard Again 37. My Last Years at LDF 38. A Summation: Victories and Defeats, Imagining the Future Bibliographical Notes Table of Cases Index

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