We shall overcome

Tsesis, Alexander.

We shall overcome a history of civil rights and the law / [electronic resource] : Alexander Tsesis. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008. - x, 369 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-354) and index.

Liberty through revolution -- Constitutional republic of equals? -- The controversy about slavery -- Sectional compromise and national conflict -- Reconstructing the American dream -- Unraveling constitutional reconstruction -- Political restrictions and developments -- Progressive transitions -- Rights in the regulatory state -- The war against tyranny -- Expanding civil rights -- The Warren court's achievements -- Sketches of the continuing legal effort.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Civil rights--History.--United States


Electronic books.

JC599.U5 / T74 2008eb

323.0973