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

Zusatztext "Detailed and nuanced."--Publisher's Weekly Klappentext The movement for civil rights from the 1930s to the early 1960s had many forms. Some were culture: the African-Americans experience in World War II, the accelerating migration of African-Americans from the South, Jackie Robinson's performance in desegregating major league baseball. Others were political. Zusammenfassung This guide to civil rights law is of interest to students and scholars of American legal history and the history of the civil rights movement in the United States.

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• Authors: Mark V. Tushnet, Mark V. (Associate Dean and Professor of Law Tushnet
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9780195104684
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510468-4
• No. of pages: 412
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Legal History, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Social Law, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Human rights, civil rights, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Law & society, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law, Law and society, sociology of law, Social law and Medical law