African Americans and the living Constitution /

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Other Authors: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-, McNeil, Genna Rae
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
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Table of Contents:
  • Slavery, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers : the African American vision / Mary Frances Berry
  • Race and the Constitution in the nineteenth century / John Hope Franklin
  • Black lawyers and the twentieth-century struggle for constitutional change / Darlene Clark Hine
  • Youth initiative in the African American struggle for racial justice and constitutional rights : the city-wide young people's forum of Baltimore, 1931-1941 / Genna Rae McNeil
  • Race, the courts, and constitutional change in twentieth-century school desegregation cases after Brown : a participant's perspective / Wiley A. Branton
  • Remembering litigation, protest, and politics in Mississippi during the civil rights movement / George W. Crockett, Jr.
  • Political and social change in Mississippi since 1965 / Frank R. Parker
  • Race and constitutional change in the twentieth century : the role of the executive / Matthew Holden, Jr.
  • Congress and civil rights : from obstacle to protector / Gary Orfield
  • The real costs of racial discrimination / Derrick Bell
  • Listening to the lessons of our history : African Americans, hate speech, and the First Amendment / Charles Lawrence III
  • Weep not, little ones : an essay to our children about affirmative action / W.H. Knight and Adrien Wing
  • Blind Justice? : Race, the Constitution, and the justice system / Charles J. Ogletree
  • Environmental justice: constitutional and statutory challenges to environmental racism / Alice L. Brown
  • Fundamental rights and the Constitution : a heavenly discourse / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
  • Racial justice and the Constitution : a view from the bench / Thurgood Marshall
  • Afterword : Racial equality and full citizenship, the unfinished agenda / Julius L. Chambers