Making Civil Rights Law

Download or read book Making Civil Rights Law written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Civil Rights Law is an insightful and provocative narrative history of the legal struggle, led by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which preceded the intense political battles for civil rights. Drawing on personal interviews with Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers, as well as new information about the private deliberations of the Supreme Court, Tushnet tells the dramatic story of how the NAACP Legal Defense Fund led the Court to use the Constitution as an instrument of liberty and justice for all African-Americans. He also offers new insights into how the justices argued among themselves about the historic changes they were to make in American society.