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Civil rights stories /

Civil rights stories / Foundation Press civil right stories edited by Myriam E. Gilles, Risa L. Goluboff. - New York : [St. Paul, Minn.] : Foundation Press : Thomson/West, c2008. - v, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

At head of title: Foundation Press.

Includes bibliographical references.

Shelley v. Kraemer : racial liberalism and the U.S. Supreme Court / Brown v. Board of Education and the lost promise of civil rights / Police, race and crime in 1950s Chicago : Monroe v. Pape as legal noir / Hadnott v. Amos : unleashing the second reconstruction / San Antonio v. Rodriguez and the legal geography of school finance reform / The crime against nature on trial, Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986 / DeShaney v. Winnebago County : governmental neglect and "the blessings of liberty" / International Union, U.A.W. v. Johnson Controls : the history of litigation alliances and mobilization to challenge fetal protection policies / Missouri v. Jenkins : why district courts and local politics matter / United States v. Virginia : the Virginia Military Institute, where the men are men and so are the women / Civil rights on both sides : reproductive rights and free speech in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York / US Airways v. Barnett and the limits of disability accommodation / The Constitution and the Klan : understanding the burning cross in Virginia v. Barry Black / Wendell E. Pritchett -- Risa L. Goluboff -- Myriam E. Gilles -- Sheryll Cashin -- Richard Schragger -- Civil rights in private schools : the surprising story of Runyon v. McCrary / George Rutherglen -- The story of City of Los Angeles v. Lyons : closing the federal courthouse doors / Erwin Chemerinsky -- William N. Eskridge Jr. -- Lynda G. Dodd -- Caroline Bettinger-López & Susan Sturm -- Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- Cornelia T.L. Pillard -- Serena Mayeri -- Samuel R. Bagenstos -- Thomas B. Metzloff.

9781599410814 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1599410818 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008273459


Civil rights--United States--Cases.

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