Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

by Mark Tushnet and Mark V. Tushnet

Book Overview

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could march on Selma to register voters, the Supreme Court had to find unconstitutional the Southern Democratic Party's exclusion of African-Americans; and before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195104684
• ISBN13: 9780195104684
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"