Justice deferred race and the Supreme Court
"In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a historian and a civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the nation's p...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2021.
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| Summary: | "In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a historian and a civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the nation's promise of equality for all"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 449 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780674975644 0674975642 |
| Author Notes: | Armand Derfner has been a civil rights lawyer for nearly sixty years as well as a scholar and teacher of constitutional law. He has helped shape the Voting Rights Act in numerous Supreme Court arguments and worked on desegregating state university systems and state legislatures across the South. |
