We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law - Softcover

Tsesis, Alexander

 
9780300151442: We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300151446 ISBN 13: 9780300151442
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The history of America's successes and failures in the battles for civil rights, from the Revolutionary period to today.

Despite America's commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of nationhood, examples of injustices against minorities stain many pages of U.S. history. The battle for racial, ethnic, and gender fairness remains unfinished. This comprehensive book traces the history of legal efforts to achieve civil rights for all Americans, beginning with the years leading up to the Revolution and continuing to our own times. The historical adventure Alexander Tsesis recounts is filled with fascinating events, with real change and disappointing compromise, and with courageous individuals and organizations committed to ending injustice.

Viewing the evolution of civil rights through the lens of legal history, Tsesis considers laws that have restricted civil rights (such as Jim Crow regulations and prohibitions against intermarriage) and laws that have expanded rights (including antisegregation legislation and other legal advances of the civil rights era). He focuses particular attention on the African American fight for civil rights but also discusses the struggles of women, gays and lesbians, Japanese Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Jews. He concludes by assessing the current state of civil rights in the United States and exploring likely future expansions of civil rights.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexander Tsesis is assistant professor of law at Loyola University of Chicago, School of Law. His previous books include The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History and Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way for Harmful Social Movements. He lives in Chicago and Milwaukee.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300151446
ISBN 13 
9780300151442
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
382
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