Equal justice under law : an autobiography
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0374148651
ISBN 13
9780374148652
DDC
347.73
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
vi, 282 pages
Subject
Slavery and Civil Rights
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Abstract
"Constance Baker joined Thurgood Marshall's legal team at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 1945 while still a student at Columbia Law School, at a time when women lawyers were uncommon. She was chief counsel for James Meredith in his legal battle to be the first black to attend the University of Mississippi; she argued ten cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and represented other leading civil rights figures, including Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1966, she was the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, over a firestorm of opposition.Equal Justice Under Law, the most detailed account to date of the legal conflicts of the civil rights movement, is also an account of Constance Baker Motley's struggle, as a black woman, to succeed; it is a moving recollection of a life lived with great courage and responsibility." - Voila
Description
Content:
New Haven, 1921-41 -- College and law school, 1941-46 -- The prelude to Brown -- Plessy v. Ferguson: our nineteenth-century legacy -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: our twentieth-century legacy -- Massive resistance and the immediate post-Brown era -- Desegregation and the rise of the federal judiciary -- The end of an era and the beginning of another -- James Meredith and the University of Mississippi -- Supreme Court years, 1961-65 -- A new career -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action.
New Haven, 1921-41 -- College and law school, 1941-46 -- The prelude to Brown -- Plessy v. Ferguson: our nineteenth-century legacy -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: our twentieth-century legacy -- Massive resistance and the immediate post-Brown era -- Desegregation and the rise of the federal judiciary -- The end of an era and the beginning of another -- James Meredith and the University of Mississippi -- Supreme Court years, 1961-65 -- A new career -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.
Number of Copies
1
