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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Legal Subject In Exile, Kathryn Abrams
The Thirteenth Amendment And The Lost Origins Of Civil Rights, Risa L. Goluboff
The Thirteenth Amendment And The Lost Origins Of Civil Rights, Risa L. Goluboff
Duke Law Journal
For the fifteen years prior to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, "civil rights" did not refer to a unified, coherent category. Rather, the content of the term was open, changing, and contradictory. The lawyers of the Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice, which was created in 1939, were among those thinking about, and experimenting with, different ways of practicing and framing civil rights in the 1940s. Their practice shows how, as the Great Depression faded and World War II loomed, the most prominent civil rights issues shifted from the labor arena to …
Foreign Affairs And Domestic Reform (Book Review), Curtis A. Bradley
Foreign Affairs And Domestic Reform (Book Review), Curtis A. Bradley
Faculty Scholarship
Reviewing, Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000).