Social Movements, Legal Change, and the Challenges of Writing Legal History

Christopher W. Schmidt

Social Movements, Legal Change, and the Challenges of Writing Legal History

Christopher W. Schmidt

Chicago-Kent College of Law

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Abstract

This Essay identifies the key contributions that Tomiko-Brown Nagin’s Courage to Dissent makes to the legal history of the civil rights movement. It situates the book among several other prominent legal histories of the civil rights era and offers thoughts on the challenge of creating historical accounts that illuminate the complex intersections of legal change and social activism. The Essay argues that Courage to Dissent is among the most thorough and ambitious efforts to confront this challenge in the literature today.

Original language	American English
Journal	Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc
Volume	65
State	Published - 2012

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Law

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