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The Legacy Of Civil Rights And The Opportunity For Transactional Law Clinics, Lynnise Pantin
The Legacy Of Civil Rights And The Opportunity For Transactional Law Clinics, Lynnise Pantin
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice
At the end of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously paraphrased abolitionist and Unitarian minister Theodore Parker stating, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” The implication of the phrase is that the social justice goals of the Civil Rights Movement would eventually be achieved. His prayer was that servants of justice would be rewarded in due time. In other words, that the goals of the Civil Rights Movement would be achievable at some point in the future. President Obama resurrected the phrase throughout …