The Waste Lands

by Tessa Potter

Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of America's foremost legal historians-Kermit Hall and Melvin Urofsky-provide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Court's canon. When the New York Times published an advertisement that accused Alabama officials of willfully abusing civil rights activists, Montgomery police commissioner Lester Sullivan filed suit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0808610899
• ISBN13: 9780808610892
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Schoolhouse Press
• Length: 48 Pages