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Courage to Dissent

Brown Nagin, Tomiko

How did local lawyers and organizers in Atlanta shape the fight for racial equality, sometimes differently from the national NAACP plan?

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Author
Brown Nagin, Tomiko

Why read it

  • You will see that big movements are shaped by local people who adapt national plans to their own town
  • You will understand why people on the same side can disagree about method and still pursue the same goal
  • You will learn how ordinary citizens used the Constitution to press for change

Who it is for

  • A lawyer curious how law and activism work together
  • An organizer trying to fit a national plan to a local place
  • A reader of civil rights history beyond the famous names

Contents

  1. ABBREVIATIONS KEY
  2. Introduction
  3. PART I
  4. A. T. Walden and Pragmatic Civil Rights Lawyering in the Postwar Era
  5. PART II
  6. The Movement, Its Lawyers, and the Fight for Racial Justice during the 1960s
  7. PART III
  8. Questioning Brown: Lawyers, Courts, and Communities in Struggle
  9. Conclusion
  10. APPENDIX

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