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The Search for Justice - Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975 (Paperback)
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The Search for Justice - Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975 (Paperback)
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The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American
political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change
were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing
concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold out the
promise of a new and better nation. The Search for Justice is a
look the role of the lawyers throughout the period, focusing on one
of the central issues of the time: school segregation. The most
notable participants to address this issue were the public interest
lawyers of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, whose counselors brought
lawsuits and carried out appeals in state and federal courts over
the course of twenty years. But also playing a part in the story
were members of the bar who defended Jim Crow laws explicitly or
implicitly and, in some cases, also served in state or federal
government; lawyers who sat on state and federal benches and heard
civil rights cases; and, finally, law professors who analyzed the
reasoning of the courts in classrooms and public forums removed
from the fray. With rich, copiously researched detail, Hoffer takes
readers through the interactions of these groups, setting their
activities not only in the context of the civil rights movement but
also of their full political and legal legacies, including the
growth of corporate private legal practice after World War II and
the expansion of the role of law professors in public discourse,
particularly with the New Deal. Seeing the civil rights era through
the lens of law enables us to understand for the first time the
many ways in which lawyers affected the course and outcome of the
movement.
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