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Toward A Judicial Role For The Twenty-First Century, Charles L. Black, Jr.
Toward A Judicial Role For The Twenty-First Century, Charles L. Black, Jr.
Washington Law Review
Tonight, I am shifting to a new perspective in time. I would ask you to think of us as standing at a midpoint, just about equally distant from the decision in Brown v. Board of Education and the beginning of a new century, some twenty-three years back and forward. I remember the day the Brown case was decided; I learned of it, on a May afternoon still fragrant, from a group of Columbia law students in the drugstore-luncheonette on the corner of 116th Street and Broadway in New York. If you remember that day, or some other day in that …