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The sit-ins :

022652230X

022652244X

9780226522302

9780226522449

9780226522586

The sit-ins :

[Book]

protest and legal change in the civil rights era /

Christopher W. Schmidt.

Chicago :

The University of Chicago Press,

2018.

©2018

260 pages ;

23 cm

The Chicago series in law and society

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-250) and index.

Introduction -- The students -- The lawyers -- The sympathizers -- The opponents -- The justices -- The lawmakers -- Conclusion.

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"The Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet defiance at "whites only" lunch counters lies a series of underappreciated legal dilemmas--about the meaning of the Constitution, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy different forms of injustice, and the relationship between legal reform and social change. The students' actions initiated a national conversation over whether the Constitution's equal protection clause extended to the activities of private businesses that served the general public. The courts, the traditional focal point for accounts of constitutional disputes, played an important but ultimately secondary role in this story. The great victory of the sit-in movement came not in the Supreme Court, but in Congress, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that recognized the right African American students had claimed for themselves four years earlier. The Sit-Ins invites a broader understanding of how Americans contest and construct the meaning of their Constitution"--Publisher's website.

9780226522586

African Americans-- Civil rights-- History-- 20th century.

African Americans-- Civil rights-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.

African Americans-- History-- 1877-1964.

Civil rights demonstrations-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.

Civil rights demonstrations-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

African Americans.

Civil rights demonstrations.

HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.

LAW-- Civil Rights.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Advocacy.

Race relations.

Southern States, Race relations.

Southern States.

United States.

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