Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The third edition is a major revision, updating, revising, and expanding the material on civil rights, abortion, women’s rights, and marriage equality. In particular, it analyzes the resegregation of public schools, showing how the conditions necessary for courts to produce progressive change waned, limiting judicial efficacy." * Law & Courts Newsletter *
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
1: The Dynamic and the Constrained Court
Part 1: Civil Rights
2: Bound for Glory?
Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution
3: Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts
4: Planting the Seeds of Progress?
5: The Current of History
Part 2: Abortion and Women’s Rights
6: Transforming Women’s Lives? The Courts and Abortion
7: Liberating Women? The Courts and Women’s Rights
8: The Court as Catalyst?
9: The Tide of History
Part 3: Marriage Equality
10: You’ve Got That
Loving Feeling? The Litigation Campaign for Marriage Equality
11: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Mobilization, Countermobilization, and State Action
12: The Times They Are a-Changing
13: Conclusion: The Fly-Paper Court
Epilogue
Appendixes
1. Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites, State-by-State Breakdown, 1954–1972
2. Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities: State-by-State Breakdown
3. Black Voter Registration in the Southern States, Pre– and Post–Voting Rights Act, State-by-State Breakdown
4. Data Correction for Table 2.5
5. Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation
6. Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
7. Illegal Abortions
8. Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1a, 8.1b, 8.2a, and 8.2b, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.2
9. Make Change, Not Lawsuits
10. Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6
Case References
References
Index
