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The Sit-Ins - Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)
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The Sit-Ins - Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)
Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society
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On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered
the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and
sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the
American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students
remained in their seats until the store closed. In the following
days, they returned, joined by growing numbers of fellow students.
These "sit-in" demonstrations soon spread to other southern cities,
drawing in thousands of students and coalescing into a protest
movement that would transform the struggle for racial inequality.
The Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests
and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the
constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the
law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic
scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet
defiance at "whites only" lunch counters lies a series of
underappreciated legal dilemmas--about the meaning of the
Constitution, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy
different forms of injustice, and the relationship between legal
reform and social change. The students' actions initiated a
national conversation over whether the Constitution's equal
protection clause extended to the activities of private businesses
that served the general public. The courts, the traditional focal
point for accounts of constitutional disputes, played an important
but ultimately secondary role in this story. The great victory of
the sit-in movement came not in the Supreme Court, but in Congress,
with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark
legislation that recognized the right African American students had
claimed for themselves four years earlier. The Sit-Ins invites a
broader understanding of how Americans contest and construct the
meaning of their Constitution.
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