How to become a civil rights attorney<br>Consider majoring in political science or sociology. The social sciences can give you a solid background for civil rights laws, especially since many major civil rights cases turned on social science arguments. [substeps] Most civil rights attorneys specialize in one issue, or on preserving and strengthening the rights of a particular group.
These instructions are not the only thing you need to read before becoming an expert in civil rights laws. 
Of course it's not the only thing you'd need to read -- you'd have read things about civil rights laws, and the text suggests getting a college major, which would be more reading. 
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