The first book-length study of civil rights litigation from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity fills a void in the scholarly literature on American courts and poltics in the post Brown versus Board of Education era.
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Stephen L. Wasby is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany. He is author of The Supreme Court in the Federal Judicial System, editor of "He Shall Not Pass This Way Again": The Legacy of Justice Douglas, and he has published numerous articles on judicial administration.
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Any civil rights action takes place in an environment of many elements, among them the nation's demographics, including the racial groupings in the population and their spatial location; the economy, which intersects with demographics to provide a distribution of racial groupings by income and occupation, and the political environment, which itself has several components, only some of which we can touch on in this chapter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
northern school cases, planned litigation, amicus activity, litigating organizations, cooperating attorneys, responsive litigation, amicus participation, civil rights bar, racial credit, civil rights interest groups, conservative public interest law firms, litigation dynamics, litigation for social change, race relations litigation, litigating groups, national legal staff, civil rights litigation, litigation planning, interest group litigation, school litigation, remedy stage, litigation campaign, school desegregation litigation, litigation budget, death penalty litigation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Legal Defense Fund, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Ford Foundation, San Francisco, Thurgood Marshall, Voting Rights Act, Board of Education, Warren Court, Charles Houston, Los Angeles, Burger Court, United States, North Carolina, Robert Carter, Nathaniel Jones, Native American Rights Fund, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union, District of Columbia, Lawyers Committee, Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, Julius Chambers, Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee New!
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Any civil rights action takes place in an environment of many elements, among them the nation's demographics, including the racial groupings in the population and their spatial location; the economy, which intersects with demographics to provide a distribution of racial groupings by income and occupation, and the political environment, which itself has several components, only some of which we can touch on in this chapter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
northern school cases, planned litigation, amicus activity, litigating organizations, cooperating attorneys, responsive litigation, amicus participation, civil rights bar, racial credit, civil rights interest groups, conservative public interest law firms, litigation dynamics, litigation for social change, race relations litigation, litigating groups, national legal staff, civil rights litigation, litigation planning, interest group litigation, school litigation, remedy stage, litigation campaign, school desegregation litigation, litigation budget, death penalty litigation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Legal Defense Fund, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Ford Foundation, San Francisco, Thurgood Marshall, Voting Rights Act, Board of Education, Warren Court, Charles Houston, Los Angeles, Burger Court, United States, North Carolina, Robert Carter, Nathaniel Jones, Native American Rights Fund, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union, District of Columbia, Lawyers Committee, Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, Julius Chambers, Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee New!
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- The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment (Constitutionalism and Democracy) by Eric W. Rise in Back Matter
- Governance by Decree: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act in Dallas (Studies in Government and Public Policy) by Ruth P. Morgan in Back Matter
- Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany (Publications of the German Historical Institute) by Manfred Berg on page 192
- The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic by Richard S. Newman in Back Matter
- The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective by Charles R. Epp in Back Matter
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