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Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005; Equal Justice Under Law

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09925.02 Author/Creator: Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005; Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book Date: 1999 Pagination: 1 v. : 288 p. 16 p. of plates ; Order a Copy

Two copies of Equal Justice Under Law by Constance Baker Motley published in 1999. The book is separated into twelve chapters with an appendix, notes, acknowledgements, and index to follow. The chapters are entitled; New Haven 1921-41, College and Law School, 1941-46, The Prelude to Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson: Our Nineteenth-Century Legacy, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: Our Twentieth-Century Legacy, Massive Resistance and the Immediate Post-Brown Era, Desegregation and the Rise of the Federal Judiciary, The End of an Era and the Beginning of Another, James Meredith and the University of Mississippi, Supreme Court Years, 1961-65, A New Career, The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action. The book is one of, the most detailed accounts of the legal conflicts of the civil rights movement.

Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005

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