We shall overcome : a history of civil rights and the law /
Author / Creator: | Tsesis, Alexander. |
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Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 369 pages) |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11203722 |
Summary: | The history of America's successes and failures in the battles for civil rights, from the Revolutionary period to today. Viewing the evolution of civil rights through the lens of legal history, Tsesis considers laws that have restricted civil rights (such as Jim Crow regulations and prohibitions against intermarriage) and laws that have expanded rights (including antisegregation legislation and other legal advances of the civil rights era). He focuses particular attention on the African American fight for civil rights but also discusses the struggles of women, gays and lesbians, Japanese Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Jews. He concludes by assessing the current state of civil rights in the United States and exploring likely future expansions of civil rights. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 369 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-354) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780300145311 0300145314 1282088653 9781282088658 9780300118377 0300118376 |