Christopher W Schmidt

Civil Rights in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of how Americans, from the Civil War through today, have fought over the meaning of civil rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781108444972
• ISBN-10: 1108444970
• Artikelnr.: 60200933

Autorenporträt

Christopher W. Schmidt is a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States, a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and the editor of Law & Social Inquiry. Professor Schmidt received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The birth of civil rights - reconstruction
2. The transformation of civil rights - the Jim Crow years
3. Civil rights reborn - the 1940s and 1950s
4. Beyond civil rights - the 1960s
5. Getting right with the civil rights movement
6. Civil rights everywhere
Conclusion.